Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez was president for three decades. Now, with rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir-al Sham (HTS) forming a transitional ...

Return of foot-and-mouth disease in Hungary rekindles farmers’ concerns Bosnia’s defiant Serb leader Dodik sentenced to one year in prison ...

"He is accused of hundreds of assassinations during the era of the criminal Hafez al-Assad," Bashar al-Assad's father and predecessor. Huweija, who headed air force intelligence from 1987 to 2002 ...

The couple has three children: Hafez, Zein and Karim. In late December 2024, after the Assad family fled to Russia, reports emerged that Asma had filed for divorce from her husband, which the Kremlin ...

Her remarks come shortly after her son, Hafez Bashar al-Assad, announced on X that a forthcoming podcast episode will reveal "untold truths and secrets" about their past following their departure from ...

He was referring to the slogan “Hafez Assad forever," which was coined by supporters of Hafez Assad (Bashar Assad's father) in the early 1970s. Now Syrians are calling the fall of Bashar Assad ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

Finally, we won! The lion has fallen!” In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the ...

said Hamra, whose family has settled in New York. His family fled the Syrian capital to escape the repressive government of Hafez Assad. With the toppling of his son, Bashar Assad, in December and ...

SANA said meanwhile that security forces had detained Ibrahim Huweija, a general who was "accused of hundreds of assassinations" under the rule of Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for the country’s minorities, an expert on religious minorities writes.

The ad had Bashar Assad disguising himself as several political figures including his father, Hafez Assad, and Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler. He also disguised himself as a clown and a pirate.