Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez was president for three decades. Now, with rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir-al Sham (HTS) forming a transitional ...

Hafez al-Assad died in 2000. His son, Bashar al-Assad, who took over power from him, fled Damascus last weekend after nearly 25 years of rule when the rebels announced the end of his regime.

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of former president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, in a symbolic move marking the end of the Assad family’s 54-year rule.

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad's father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...

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 ...

Opposition fighters set fire to the mausoleum of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha on December 11, marking a symbolic blow to the Assad family's half ...