Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez was president for three decades. Now, with rebels led by the Islamist ...

Return of foot-and-mouth disease in Hungary rekindles farmers’ concerns Bosnia’s defiant Serb leader Dodik sentenced to one year in prison ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

He was referring to the slogan “Hafez Assad forever," which was coined by supporters of Hafez Assad (Bashar Assad's father) in the early 1970s. Now Syrians are calling the fall of Bashar Assad ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

Bassel al-Assad died in a 1994 road accident. He had been the presumed successor to his father Hafez al-Assad who set up the paranoid, secretive, repressive system of government that Bashar ...

The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for the country’s minorities, an expert on religious minorities writes.

Beirut: Journalists sometimes hear shocking statements—ones they lock away in their memory, fearing their repercussions. Some are too violent, too damaging, or too costly to repeat. Others risk swift ...

It is the end of an era for the El-Assad family's rule in Syria. The regime, established in 1971 by the father, Hafez, has fallen. His son Bashar, in power since July 14, 2000, left the country on ...