The three young men were beaming the morning after ... Homs and finally Damascus – took just more than a week. Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1971, and his son Bashar succeeded him in 2000, ...

Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father ... "We hope, by the hands of our young people, God willing, it will be better than ...

Former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel said that the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad viewed Lebanon the same way the ...

Bashar became president in 2000 when his father, president Hafez al-Assad, died. At this point Asma ... She set up youth centres across Syria which taught young people about civic responsibility ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, former President Hafez al-Assad ... not favoured under al-Assad in terms of their freedoms, one young Syrian says. “It was worse for me under al-Assad ...