The BBC reports that images (see them here) show fighters beside the burning gravesite of former president Hafez al-Assad, who died in 2000 and was interred in a mausoleum in his hometown of Qardaha.

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad's father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo highway. Now, like that regime, it is toppled, and Syrians have been ...

amid reports that the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, the father of removed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was torched in Latakia. The tomb of Hafez, who was president from 1971 until his death in 2000 ...

Opposition fighters set fire to the mausoleum of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha on December 11, marking a symbolic blow to the Assad family's half ...