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Syrian rebels burn tomb of Hafez al-Assad as Assad dynasty ends
Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of former president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, ...
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Syria's Assad resigns and leaves the country after stunning rebel blitz, Russia says
Rebel forces in Syria said they have captured four cities in the past 24 hours and entered the capital Damascus.
Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with an iron fist for more than 50 years?
Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more ...
Tomb of ousted Syrian president's father Hafez al-Assad set alight
Syrian rebels set fire to the mausoleum containing the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad's ...
Large crowds in Syria bring statue of Hafez al-Assad down after his son, Bashar al-Assad, flees country
The nearly quarter-century rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad came to a stunning end, when he fled the country by plane ...
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Russia state media says Syria's Assad and his family in Moscow
Syria's Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow and have been granted asylum "on humanitarian grounds," Russian state ...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flees Damascus as rebels move into country’s capital
REUTERS Al-Assad began serving as head of Syria in 2000 following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled as president since 1971.
Syrian rebels set fire to tomb of Assad's father Hafez in hometown
Pictures show that Hafez’s coffin might have been dragged out of the grave and set on fire. The mausoleum also houses the ...
US removes long-standing bounty on Syrian rebel leader
The United States has removed the long-standing $10 million bounty on the de-facto leader of Syria following a high-level US ...