UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – When President Trump first addressed the UN General Assembly back in September 2017—just after he restricted or banned nationals from several countries in Africa and the Middle ...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

Among the leaders in attendance were Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO ...

But many Alawites said that they suffered like other Syrians under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad. Eyewitness reports and videos from the coastal region showed houses in ...

Kurds have historically faced discrimination in Syria and were barred from being able to use their language under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, among other forms of discrimination.

Israel has never fully demarcated its borders with its neighbors. For half a century, Hafez al-Assad and his son, Bashar, ruled Syria ruthlessly, enduring wars, rebellions, and uprisings while ...

The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite when he seized control of the country in a 1970 coup after rising within the ostensibly secular Baath Party.