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.

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an ...

That's more than a quarter of Lebanon's entire population. K AL-AHMAD: (Speaking Arabic). FENG: But now, with the fall of Assad, Al-Ahmad says he plans to return to Syria once he saves up enough ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with president Hafez al-Assad intervening in its 1975-1990 civil war and his son Bashar al-Assad only withdrawing ...

In 2015, Gabbard was part of a congressional trip led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., to the Turkish-Syrian border to see the impact of the war. As part of that trip, they visited Gaziantep, where civilians ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

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 ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Russia over the weekend ... sealed Syrian domination over Lebanon and set up a network of Palestinian and Lebanese militant groups. When Hafez died in ...

With Syria's corruption-ridden economy in shambles after the overthrow of Bashar Assad, the caretaker government’s priority ...

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions ...