Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, locking up those who ...

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

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

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

Assad, has filed for divorce and expressed her desire to return to the United Kingdom, reports The Jerusalem Post quoting ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

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

Asma al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a “50/50” chance of survival ...

In a report by the Mail Online, neighbours were quoted as saying Asma's father, a cardiologist, and mother Sahar, a retired ...

After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more ...

Hundreds of students at Damascus University trampled on a statue of one of Syria's former rulers on Sunday, expressing ...