Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the ...

amid reports that the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, the father of removed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was torched in Latakia. The tomb of Hafez, who was president from 1971 until his death in 2000 ...

the late president Hafez al-Assad, while a wall mural of the current leader was riddled with bullets. This follows the Syrian army's withdrawal from much of the south, leaving more areas of the ...

Another clip, posted by Documenting Oppression Against Muslims, shows Syrian opposition fighters in an unknown location playing football with the head of a statue of Hafez al-Assad. Middle East ...

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 ...

I grew up in this Syria. When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over ...

In the Jermana suburb, just ten kilometers from central Damascus, demonstrators brought down the statue of Hafez al-Assad, the late father of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday.