Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Torn posters shows the late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son the ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad, that were set at the entrance of the notorious security detention centre called ...

ALEPPO, Syria — To understand the shakedown empire that was once Syria under former President Bashar Assad, consider the notorious Al-Khatib prison and torture center. Nestled in a leafy ...

In the time of Hafez Assad, Bashar’s father, Syria was a socialist economy, with Soviet-style nationalization and tight regulation. His son took a neoliberal tack, and though some initiatives ...

Al-Khayer, a jovial man with an earnest voice, lives in Qardaha, the Assad family's ancestral town that is also home to the mausoleum of the ousted president's precedessor and father, Hafez.

He referred to the "damaged" ties under the rule of late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son and successor Bashar Assad, who was ousted on Dec. 8 by his Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.

Members of the new Syrian security forces stand outside a security building in Nawa, near Daraa, Syria, January 4, 2025. [AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy] Reports of excessive violence and executions of ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...

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.