Hafez al-Assad took power in 1970 ... His enforcer — his No. 2 — was his younger brother Maher. In other words, what Rifaat had been to Hafez (before 1983), Maher was to Bashar.

The father is Hafez al- Assad- the man who got away with the ... mother of Bashar's disappointment with her sons, Bashar and Maher, because of the chaos that has taken hold in Syria.

Maher al-Assad (left), once a powerful figure in Syria ... saying he was as ruthless as his father, Hafez. One other name keeps cropping up alongside Maher’s when people in Damascus curse ...

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

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

His brother, Maher al-Assad was head of the elite Fourth Division ... saying he was as ruthless as his father, Hafez. One other name keeps cropping up alongside Maher's when people in Damascus curse ...

This was new: Until the liberation, they had to chant their loyalty to Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez ... compound that had been the domain of Maher al-Assad, the former dictator ...

"This is Maher al-Assad's main office," the guard said ... saying he was as ruthless as his father, Hafez. One other name keeps cropping up alongside Maher's when people in Damascus curse ...

"He knows how to destroy -- he knows how to kill and then lie to appear innocent," Jadaan told French TV early in the civil war, saying he was as ruthless as his father, Hafez. Maher al-Assad's ...