The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite when he seized control of the country in a 1970 coup after rising within the ostensibly secular Baath Party.

When asked about the possibility of holding prayers in the Jewish house of worship ... Jews were forcibly deported by the regime of Hafez al-Assad, father of the recently ousted Syrian president ...

The observatory and activists released footage showing dozens of bodies in civilian clothing piled in the yard of a house ... the rule of Assad’s father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father ... In the U.S., he testified in Congress before the House Foreign Affairs Committee wearing glasses and a blue raincoat, the hood pulled low over his face.

Fighters linked to Syria's ousted leader Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces on Thursday, ...

American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...

They left for the neighbor's house," she said ... Ideology aside, he is a carbon copy of Hafez al-Assad: He wants to control the country without sharing." Osama, however, is optimistic.

American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal ... to escape the repressive government of Hafez Assad. With the toppling of his son, Bashar ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to ... the repressive government of Hafez Assad. With the toppling of his son ...

His family fled the Syrian capital to escape the repressive government of Hafez ... Assad was ousted in December by a coalition of rebel groups led by an Islamist insurgent, Ahmad al-Sharaa ...