Bashar al-Assad was photographed talking to his wife ... the presidency in July 2000 following the death of his father Hafez. The former investment banker styled herself as a progressive rights ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad's son Hafez has graduated with honors from Moscow State University, the governmental newspaper Al-Watan reported on Thursday. According to its information ...

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 ...

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 ...