Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000, solidifying his family’s rule for 54 years until the deposition of his son on Dec. 8, 2024.

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals had sprayed variations of the phrase “Damn your soul, Hafez.” Near two weeks ...

Hafez Assad's Mourners. June 15, 2000. Just because Syria is a totalitarian country, among the last to lumber into the 21st century, ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

The current whereabouts of Hafez Assad’s remains are unknown. The incident comes amid rising violence targeting members of the Alawite sect, the minority to which the Assad family belongs, ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League after 12 years of political isolation. This dramatic turn of events was ...

The collapse of the Assad regime was expected to increase instability, but so far Ahmed Al-Sharaa has attempted to make ...

Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on ...