David Lammy branded Bashar al-Assad “the rat of Damascus” after the deposed Syrian dictator fled to Russia. The foreign secretary launched his angry broadside in the House of Commons as he ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...

Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee for their lives, and many worry the new government is not serious about ...

In the towns and villages of southern Syria that Israel has occupied since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad ... "People around here are very angry about the Israeli incursion.

When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over his vast empire of ...

A furious blame game is unfolding among Iran’s armed forces over the fall of Bashar al-Assad ... blaming each other “in angry terms” for the collapse of Assad’s regime and the loss ...

And that made them angry. They tortured me even more afterwards ... left with them when I was arrested. She supported Bashar al-Assad. I haven't seen them for ten years." He cries again.

A Turkish official says Turkey and Israel have held technical talks aimed at preventing conflict between their troops in ...

Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private ...

The United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of destabilising Syria after a wave of strikes on military targets, including an airport, and a ground incursion killed 13 people. On Wednesday, Israel ...