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.

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After the fall of President Bashar al-Assad ... Syria under Mr. Assad and before him his father, Hafez al-Assad, never considered Lebanon an independent country. As an occupier starting in ...

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 ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... We meet some of them at our final stop at a Shiite shrine in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Singing in ...

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 ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country's interim ...

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 ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.