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.

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 ...

For decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad, “our eternal leader.” He died in 2000. He was succeeded by his son Bashar, who received similar praises.

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

Torn posters shows the late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son the ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad, that were set at the entrance of the notorious security detention centre called ...

Rana Khoury, professor in LAS, spoke in a lecture on Tuesday about Syria’s past and future after the collapse of the Assad ...

Al-Khayer, a jovial man with an earnest voice, lives in Qardaha, the Assad family’s ancestral town that is also home to the mausoleum of the ousted president’s precedessor and father ...