The tomb of the former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad has been set alight, according to numerous reports, just days after an uprising swept his son Bashar from power. Images taken from Qardaha ...

Syrian rebels have set fire to the tomb of ex-President Bashar al-Assad's father in his former hometown Images show the fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad in the ...

The humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, with the unloved dictator forced to flee as a baying Islamist mob overran the presidential palace in Damascus ...

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Syrians around the country on Sunday toppled and trampled on statues of President Bashar al-Assad's late father Hafez, who founded the brutal system of government that his son inherited.

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's hometown. Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as ...

Assad came to power in 2000 by a twist of fate. His father had been cultivating Bashar’s oldest brother, Basil, as his successor, but in 1994, Basil was killed in a car crash in Damascus.

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Let's bring you some more images and details of the tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's father which has been was torched in his hometown of Qardaha. The tomb also houses the graves ...

Along the highway to the Syrian capital, we could only see torn-apart pictures of former president Bashar al- Assad and remnants of battles between the Syrian army and the rebel forces ...