A bashful Bashar might blush at this. Jihadi rebels invading President Bashar al-Assad’s palace in Aleppo last week came across a photo of the Syrian leader as a young man, sporting nothing but ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

Six months after Ahmad al-Sharaa led the ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad he was shaking hands with Donald Trump, who would go on to describe him as a “young, attractive guy”. The ...

Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained rare access to sites across the war-ravaged nation, some of which have long been inaccessible to ...

Moises Saman won two Pulitzer Prizes for photography in May. One was in the Feature Photography category for his coverage of Syria after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, which he undertook for ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

Decades of oppression in the chokehold of first Hafez al-Assad and then his son Bashar had created a vast reservoir of resentment. This was truly a homegrown uprising, almost a family affair.