Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

In the time of Hafez Assad, Bashar’s father, Syria was a socialist economy, with Soviet-style nationalization and tight regulation. His son took a neoliberal tack, and though some initiatives ...

He referred to the "damaged" ties under the rule of late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son and successor Bashar Assad, who was ousted on Dec. 8 by his Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.

Members of the new Syrian security forces stand outside a security building in Nawa, near Daraa, Syria, January 4, 2025. [AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy] Reports of excessive violence and executions of ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...

Syrias new authorities have announced the arrest of Atif Najib a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...