How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in ...

The funeral of Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad. His "departure" was much more stately and calm than his son’s retreat this past week. For some 30 years, he had ruled Syria with an ...

and the other by Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, an ultra-left-wing general and the commander of the Syrian Air Forces respectively. Then Assad staged a coup in 1970, known as the Corrective ...

F or over 50 years, the Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, amassing a secret fortune while the country’s people endured poverty and war. The family patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized ...

The largest statue of Hafez Assad, overlooking the Qalamoun Region in Syria, has been demolished by rebels. (AP video by ...

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 ...

CAIRO — Months before his death in 1999, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad advised Lebanese Prime ... They resembled Gaddafi’s Libya somewhat, yes, but the scene was much more complex.

The chase will likely be long, if the years-long attempts to recover the wealth secreted overseas by Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi are ... the patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized power ...

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 ...