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

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

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

Maher Assad is a Syrian former military officer who ... former Syrian regime as no news confirmed whether he left with his brother to Russia. Following the collapse of Bashar Assad and his ...

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 ...

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 ...