Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Zammar reportedly took credit for influencing Ramzi bin al-Shibh and the rest of the Hamburg group. Owing to Zammar’s ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on ...

Khaled has been an activist calling for Syrian freedom since 2011 when small protests in the country marked the beginning of the Syrian uprising.

Droubi, the wife of Syria's newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, have sparked wide interest in Syria's new ...

The Paris-born, Damascus-raised director Soudade Kaadan reflects on life under Assad – and looks ahead with hope to a future ...

Hafez al-Assad, an Air Force general belonging to the Shiite offshoot Alawite sect, took power in a 1970 coup. Over the next 30 years, he consolidated his rule with an iron fist, most notably in ...