T he tomb that holds the remains of Bashar al-Assad's father has apparently been torched in Syria. The BBC reports that images (see them here) show fighters beside the burning gravesite of former ...

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad's father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's hometown. Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as ...

TASS/. Unidentified persons broke into the mausoleum of former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s father, Hafez, and set fire to his tomb, the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar reported. The arsonists ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces from the shadows of dictatorship.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president on Wednesday in a push to ...

As they took Latakia, cheering rebel fighters set the tomb ablaze, graffitiing the names of their brigades across the walls and by the entrance a message damning Hafez al-Assad (Speaking in ...

Leader of Rebels Who Toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad Is Named Country's Interim President DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an ...