Rebel fighters have set fire to the tomb of Syria’s former president Hafez Assad in his home town in the country’s northwest. The insurgents posed with the flag of the revolution in the burnt ...

Images show the fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad in the former president's hometown.

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's hometown. Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as ...

TASS/. Unidentified persons broke into the mausoleum of former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s father, Hafez, and set fire to his tomb, the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar reported. The arsonists ...

And, in fact people there weren't mourning the family at all. The tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez, has been burnt to the ground and it's covered in graffiti from rebel fighters ...

As they took Latakia, cheering rebel fighters set the tomb ablaze, graffitiing the names of their brigades across the walls and by the entrance a message damning Hafez al-Assad (Speaking in ...