A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo ...

The huge toppled statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the Damascus countryside town of Deir Atiyam in Qalamoun ...

The source said Rifaat al-Assad departed Lebanon around a week ago and "used a diplomatic passport", without naming his destination. Bouthaina Shaaban, a former translator for deceased Syrian ...

An official with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS ... A rivalry developed between the Syrian branch under Assad and his late father, Hafez, and the one in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who was removed ...

Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel Rifaat, in his late 80s, was brother to Assad's father, the late president Hafez al-Assad, and led elite forces that crushed a 1982 ...

Bouthaina Shaaban, a former translator for deceased Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and long-time political adviser to his son Bashar al-Assad, was similarly able to pass through Beirut airport ...

Rifaat, in his late 80s, was brother to Assad's father, the late president Hafez al-Assad, and led elite forces that crushed a 1982 Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama, killing more ...

It was in Hama that Hafez al-Assad, the father of now-deposed president Bashar al-Assad, cemented the dynasty’s brutal rule by crushing an uprising led by the Muslim Brotherhood. This month ...

Rifaat al-Assad led forces that crushed Syrian revolt in 1982 Switzerland charged him with crimes against humanity BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader ...