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 ...

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

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

Nearly two weeks after the ouster of his son, Bashar Assad, people streamed in to take photos ... scattered incidents of ...

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

Like the son who succeeded him ... died in a car crash in 1994. Bashar al-Assad was then thrust into the national spotlight and studied military science, later becoming a colonel in the Syrian ...

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

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.

Sammy Ketz & Maher al MounesA lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria's ruling clan off guard. President ...

International aid planes and foreign diplomatic delegations have already been landing in Syria. Domestic flights have also ...

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over ...