ALBAWABA - After months of uncertainty about the fate of Maher Assad, brother of the former president of Syria Bashar Assad, ...

Hafez al-Assad did not settle for ruling Syria with an iron grip—he also sought to control Lebanon, and he got his way.

The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

Syria's new rulers are combing through the billion-dollar corporate empires of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's allies, and ...

ALBAWABA - On Friday, many social media accounts claimed that Maher Assad, brother of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, will return to Syria causing chaos in the Syrian coastal cities.

Hafez’s No. 2, so to speak, was his younger brother Rifaat. He was the regime’s enforcer, its bloody fist. In 1982, the Assads put down a rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama.

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was always to have one of his sons succeed him, even if this meant sacrificing ...

Hamsho, whom the U.S. Treasury has accused of being a front for Assad and his brother Maher, did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. Foz could not be reached. The establishment of the ...