Hafez Assad's alleged account claimed that "There was no plan, not even a backup, to leave Damascus, let alone Syria." He added further, "Over the past 14 years, Syria has endured hardships" and ...

Asma moved to Syria in 2000 and married Bashar in December of that year, just months after he became president in July. The couple has three children: Hafez, Zein and Karim. In late December 2024, ...

Yet, shaken by the ordeal, Hafez al-Assad chose Bassel as his successor. The Syrian president would never admit he had been rattled. When questioned about a possible successor after the crisis ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij ...

Syria – once a proud regional power under Hafez Assad – was reduced to a pawn in the hands of foreign powers. Turkey, the U.S., Israel, Iran, the Gulf States and Russia all had a hand in the ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 2/4). The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, at any price. Winter 1986, Beirut.

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk outside the Great Mosque of Aleppo, also known as the Umayyad Mosque, in the Old ...

Hafez al-Assad (top), with other cadets from the Syrian Air Force Academy, near Aleppo (Syria), between 1953 and 1954. SYRIANHISTORY.COM VIA CREATIVE COMMONS Al-Assad joined in the 1950s ...