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 ...

Mr. Assad’s wife, Asma, and the two youngest of their adult ... under Kremlin protection in a government safe house. This week, Hafez dismissed rumors that his Uncle, Rifaat Suleiman al-Assad, died.

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.

Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad ... wife Asma has been treated for cancer. Two days later, when their son Hafez ...

Despite severe United Nations sanctions and deep isolation, Pyongyang remains a significant player on the international ...

(If you ask nicely, I might show you my gaudy as all get-out Idi Amin shirt or my splendidly outrageous Hafez al-Assad banner ... while browsing with my wife and daughter in the musty ...

Hafez Assad ruled as the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until he died in 2000, after suffering from a sudden heart attack. He was born in Al Qardahah, Syria, and passed away in Damascus before ...

Unidentified individuals broke into the mausoleum of former Syrian president Hafez Assad — father of Bashar Assad — in the city of Qardaha in the northwestern part of the country and removed ...

Unknown individuals have reportedly exhumed the remains of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad from his grave in Qardaha, northwestern Syria. Footage and images circulating on social media show ...

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 ...