President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way ...

The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

The Paris-born, Damascus-raised director Soudade Kaadan reflects on life under Assad – and looks ahead with hope to a future ...

Assad brutally repressed any hint of dissent and his father Hafez before him did the same, notoriously crushing a Muslim Brotherhood-led rebellion in the 1980s. Several books that were previously ...

Torn posters shows the late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son the ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad, that were set at the entrance of the notorious security detention centre called ...

Iran first began smuggling arms to its regional proxy groups via Syria more than two decades ago under the tenure of former Syrian president Hafez Assad. Over time, the alliance between the two ...

Most were also anti-government activists, a family tradition that went back to the time of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father. Hafez seized power in 1970, and built a dictatorship that favored his ...

His name is Fuad Hilwani. Most of the family had left in 1992, he said, when Hafez Assad chose to allow the remaining 4,000 Jews in Syria to depart. He described the severely curtailed lives they ...

Al-Khayer, a jovial man with an earnest voice, lives in Qardaha, the Assad family’s ancestral town that is also home to the mausoleum of the ousted president’s precedessor and father ...

Al-Khayer, a jovial man with an earnest voice, lives in Qardaha, the Assad family's ancestral town that is also home to the mausoleum of the ousted president's precedessor and father, Hafez.

Al-Khayer, a jovial man with an earnest voice, lives in Qardaha, the Assad family’s ancestral town that is also home to the mausoleum of the ousted president’s precedessor and father ...