Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syria's ousted president Bashar ... taking office in 2000 and succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 to 2000. Although Russia accepted his asylum ...

Before she was the wife of Bashar al-Assad ... Asma and Bashar al-Assad have three children – sons Hafez, 23, and Karim, 19, and daughter Zein, 21. Hafez, named after his paternal grandfather ...

I grew up in this Syria. When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over ...

In the Jermana suburb, just ten kilometers from central Damascus, demonstrators brought down the statue of Hafez al-Assad, the late father of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday.

Rifat al-Assad helped Hafez al-Assad seize power in a coup in ... The Lebanese officials said the wife of his son Duraid and their daughter had been held for trying to travel from Beirut airport ...

Bashar and his father Hafez al-Assad used relatives to ... Assad regime were business-minded, notably Bashar al-Assad’s British-born wife, Asma, a former banker at JPMorgan.

amid reports that the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, the father of removed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was torched in Latakia. The tomb of Hafez, who was president from 1971 until his death in 2000 ...

Hafez had consolidated the Baath Party's ... This optimistic image was bolstered by his wife, Asma al-Assad, a former London-based investment banker. However, hopes for reform were short-lived.