Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt – who came to power from the late 1960s onwards.

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria ... Egypt was gripped by a revolution that would eject President Hosni Mubarak from power. Assad, who had yet to face protests against him ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo highway. Now, like that regime, it is toppled, and Syrians have been ...

Early yesterday morning, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Russia ... After the fall of Hosni Mubarak, ordinary Egyptians brought paint cans from home to Tahrir Square, to re ...

Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt – who came to power from the late 1960s onwards. Like ...