Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

When rebels stormed Aleppo days into the offensive that ousted Mr. al-Assad, Mr. Qashash said he followed them into the city. At a lawyers ... former President Hafez al-Assad, was felled.

I grew up in this Syria. When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over ...

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by German news outlet DW News showing people in the city of Hama toppling a statue of Hafez al-Assad, former ruler and father of Bashar. The decapitated head of the statue is then seen in another ...

Syrian rebels have set on fire the tomb of the country’s former President Hafez al-Assad in his hometown in ... both in the central city of Hama in 1982, and in the wider country since the ...

Late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was a masterful negotiator, fiercely protective of his image and reputation. He was ...

In the city, young people tore down posters of Syrian ... a statue of Bashar al-Assad's late father, former president Hafez al-Assad, was toppled and shattered in a suburb of Damascus.

President Bashar al-Assad, Syria's ruler for 24 years—following the reign of his father, Hafez al-Assad—fled the country. Russian state media later reported that he was in Moscow. In the short ...