A truck pulls the head from the toppled statue of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad through the streets of the captured Syrian city of Hama – Copyright AFP ...

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known as Abu Saleem), a close confidant and office secretary of the late Syrian president since the late 1960s. Daboul was born ...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrians in the southern city of Deraa protested on Sunday at the erection of a new statue of President Bashar al-Assad's late father, nearly eight years after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest statue of Hafez Assad, overlooking the Qalamoun Region in Syria, has been demolished by rebels. (AP video by Ghaith ...

Dozens of people demonstrated Sunday in the defeated cradle of Syria’s uprising against a statue of the late father of the president being reinstated eight years after protesters demolished it.

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Social media videos show people in Aleppo, Syria, bringing down the statue of the deceased brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Bassel-al-Assad, and the bust of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s late ...

The largest statue of Hafez Assad, overlooking the Qalamoun Region in Syria, has been demolished by rebels. (AP video by Ghaith Alsayed) ...