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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The tomb of the father of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's has been set on fire by ... The burning of Hafez's tomb comes after his son fled Syria following a lightning offensive ...

In the days since former President Bashar al-Assad's fall, Syrians have begun the anguished search for family members who vanished under the dictator's regime.

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

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

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

Bashar al-Assad took over in 2000 ... Fayza Hussein al-Ali's son had been among those arrested under Assad's rule. "There are so many like my son. From our village alone, about 70 prisoners ...