That observation came as a result of his famous Middle East “shuttle diplomacy” in the aftermath of the 1973 October war and was in reference to Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled ...

following the death of his father Hafez. She is the mother of three children: two sons and a girl. The interview with Asma al-Assad came as Russia and Syria announed the halting of airstrikes on ...

The younger brother of Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1971 to 2000, Rifaat left his home country in 1984 after failing to overthrow Hafez in a coup. Under investigation in ...

But many of us felt that for once, the world had tipped in our favor. Assad—and his father, the dictator Hafez al-Assad, before him—had made Syria the crucial geographical and political link ...

Like Bashar al-Assad, Egypt's military strongman characterizes peaceful demonstrations as terrorism and assails foreigners for fomenting opposition to his coup. Like Assad, he shows no hesitation ...

She moved to Syria in 2000 and married former ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad, just months after he succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad as president. The couple were initially presented as ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's mother, Anisa Makhlouf, has died at the age of 86, Syrian state media said on Saturday. Makhlouf, who married late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in 1957 ...

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Turkish academic Behlul Ozkan explains how and why Turkey's pro-military rulers backed an Islamist uprising in the early 1980s against the regime of Hafez al-Assad, leading Damascus to open its doors ...