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.

Lebanese authorities handed over dozens of Syrians — including former officers in the Syrian army under Assad — to the new Syrian authorities after they were caught illegally entering Lebanon ...

Israeli troops who seized strategic ground in southern Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad will remain on the summit of ...

Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family of Bashar al-Assad fled the country to neighboring Lebanon after Assad's regime was toppled on December 8. The Lebanese ...

The 1982 Hama assault is often described as the model for Bashar al-Assad's ... Mawlawi said top Assad advisor Bouthaina Shaaban had flown out of Beirut after entering Lebanon legally.

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 ...

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 ...

Rifaat Assad, the brother of Bashar Assad's father Hafez ... previously told Reuters that Lebanon would cooperate with the Interpol request to arrest al-Hassan. SARRA SOUNDS OFF: Newsday's Gregg ...

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 ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland ... to Dubai from Beirut and others had stayed in Lebanon since al-Assad was toppled on Dec. 8.