Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...

The funeral of Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad. His "departure" was much more stately and calm than his son’s retreat this past week. For some 30 years, he had ruled Syria with an ...

Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

While the Assads lived in luxury, most Qardaha residents — many, like Assad, members of the Alawite minority sect — survived ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the ...

Asma al-Assad grew up in Acton, west London and, after attending a private girls' school, graduated from King's College ...

A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to ...

Hope and uncertainty fill the streets of Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The challenges of rebuilding are enormous ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

At the town's municipal building, dozens of notables sat on bleachers discussing the country's new reality and what they ...