Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces from the shadows of dictatorship.

The Hama that Mohammed Hisham Barazanko paints does not exist any more. Some features in his pictures are recognisable: there are alleyways covered by pointed arches like the ones near his studio.

In light of the December 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, "we can talk at last", he said. On February 2, 1982, amid an ...

Foreign dignitaries and officials are beginning to travel to Syria to meet with Ahmed al ... Assad fled to Russia, ending more than half a century of oppressive rule by Bashar and his late father ...

A former rebel leader who helped defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month was named interim ... rule by Bashar and his late father, Hafez. At one point, the U.S. had placed a $10 million ...

The US has a rare opportunity to remake Syrian policy after a decade of anti-ISIS policy and after decades of the Assad ...

Iran emerged from its eight-year war with Iraq (1980-1988) battered: its economy in shambles, no allies to count on, a ...