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

QARDAHA, Syria -- On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, ...

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

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 ...

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...

The 24-year rule of Bashar al-Assad has apparently come to an end after rebel forces entered the capital Damascus.

The fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria led to the desecration of Hafez Assad's mausoleum. Once restricted to locals, Qardaha now sees its residents struggling economically despite their previous ties ...

(photo credit: BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images) Just over 54 years ago, on November 13, 1970, Hafez Assad seized power in Syria from the rival factions of the Ba’ath Party amid the chaos that ...

When he got there, Syrian troops were fleeing the area. Assad was in power for 24 years. Before that, his father, Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria ...

Assad’s father, Hafez Assad, had been cultivating Bashar’s oldest brother Basil as his successor. In 1994, Basil was killed in a car crash in Damascus. Bashar was then brought home from his ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals had sprayed variations of the phrase “Damn your soul, Hafez.” Near two weeks ...