An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have issued his first remarks since opposition forces took over Syria more than a week ago, claiming his departure from ...

Rebel forces have deposed Bashar al-Assad and after half a century of brutality ... because my flight had arrived right before my birthday and I was leaving right after my birthday, that somehow ...

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...

Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s murderer-in-chief, has fled to Moscow. The people are celebrating, tearing down posters of Assad and statues of his equally vicious father, who founded the regime.

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 ...