The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain power?

Documents circulating on social media claiming Syria's former first lady Asma al-Assad was a spy for British intelligence ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Vantage with Palki Sharma Syrian rebels demolished the largest statue of Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez al Assad on Sunday (Jan 5). In pictures shared online, the statue overlooking the Qalamoun ...

Assad’s relatives have been arrested at Beirut airport with forged passports, while his uncle, who is wanted for war crimes, ...

Asma married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000. The couple has three children: Hafez, Zein, and Karim. Asma has reportedly sought to exile herself in London with her children since the Syrian ...

How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt – who came ...

On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a military complex, tasked with defending ...

Syria The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians have long felt but could never say aloud during his family’s five-decade ...

Western and Arab powers were meeting in Riyadh on Sunday to discuss the future of post-Assad Syria as Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, ...