For decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad, “our eternal leader.” He died in 2000. He was succeeded by his son Bashar, who received similar praises.

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens ...

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.

Bassel al-Assad died in a 1994 road accident. He had been the presumed successor to his father Hafez al-Assad who set up the paranoid, secretive, repressive system of government that Bashar ...

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 ...

in unison. This was new: Until the liberation, they had to chant their loyalty to Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, “our eternal leader.” Even more dismaying than the schools is the ...