As rebels closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria ... The guard answered only to its commander, Assad’s cousin General Talal Makhlouf, or Assad himself, this person added.

BEIRUT — Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted president Bashar Assad. Talal ... an El Al jetliner in ...

socks bearing caricatures that ridicule ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his once feared family now sell like hot cakes. "I want to bring joy to people who've been deprived of happiness ...

Damascus: The brief detention of Talal Naji, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), by Syrian authorities has renewed scrutiny over the ...

The Saudi-born former jihadist had spent years fighting US forces in Iraq before moving to Syria to lead an armed Islamist rebellion that ousted the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad. The meeting ...

Trump was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al ... leader Bashar Assad. He said the effort at rapprochement came at the urging of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...