On the grounds of the Guard complex a statue of the president's brother ... He had been the presumed successor to his father Hafez al-Assad who set up the paranoid, secretive, repressive system ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens ...