From Tomb of Assad’s father set on fire in Syria hometown
Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on December 11, 2024, after it was stormed by opposition factions. (Aaref WATAD/AFP)
The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, AFP footage shows, with rebel fighters in fatigues and young men watching it burn.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor tells AFP the rebels set fire to the mausoleum, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad’s Alawite community.
