Syrian President Hafez al-Assad advised Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the strongman of the region at the time, to communicate with his son and heir to the presidency, Bashar al-Assad.

After the fall of President Bashar al-Assad ... Syria under Mr. Assad and before him his father, Hafez al-Assad, never considered Lebanon an independent country. As an occupier starting in ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... We meet some of them at our final stop at a Shiite shrine in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Singing in ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

Rifaat al-Assad arrived in Lebanon overland and "departed from Beirut ... Hafez al-Assad and long-time political adviser to his son Bashar al-Assad, was similarly able to pass through Beirut ...

Photos released by Syrian media show assault rifles, RPGs and ammunition, in apparent second instance this month of ...

The prisoners include Lebanese who had gone to fight with rebels and jihadists against the forces of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad during the conflict, which began in 2011, and were arrested upon ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ever visit of the global body's rights chief to the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Thursday that the country is poised to reestablish diplomatic ties with Syria and increase agricultural exports to Lebanon, despite the ongoing ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit ...