Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...
He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed; the ...
Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself as a ... adding that her daughter never knew her father. "I've never had the slightest compensation." Razan quickly regains composure before voicing ...
to the family of colonel Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar. The political and cultural landscape of the Middle East, post-Baath, is marked by blighted zones that might otherwise have been a ...
Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an ...
On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...
A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, his father Hafez al-Assad, the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed ...
Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s father, who ruled the country from 1971 to 2000, founded his reign on Baathist socialist ideology. He helped expand agriculture by subsidizing the ever-growing ...
Over 2,400 Tunisian nationals are believed to have joined extremist groups in Syria, and their potential return is a growing ...