The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

A social media account that goes by the name of "Hafez al-Assad" wrote a series of ... but had to go back to Damascus to visit his father Bashar Assad and brother due to the deterioration of ...

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on ...

"I've never really talked about that, it was a secret. Only my family knew," said Hadid, now a father of five. In light of ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Most were also anti-government activists, a family tradition that went back to the time of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father. Hafez seized power in 1970, and built a dictatorship that favored his ...

Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and consolidated his power by perpetuating his father's brutal methods ... Nicolas Sarkozy and Bashar al-Assad during a press conference at ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...