The regime of Bashar al-Assad has collapsed. He has fled Damascus for Moscow, leaving Syria’s rebels – diverse in tribe, race, and religion – in control. Torture chambers like those at ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. By Newsweek Staff On 12/22/24 at 5:00 AM EST.

It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in the course of which 500,000 people are thought to have been killed ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse ... Half of the roughly 20 stations have reopened since the ousting of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, each ...

After meeting Bashar al-Assad, then heir to the Syrian dictatorship, then Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said he feared for the country's future.

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments in a year convulsed by war. From Syrians themselves to Syria’s ...

How the Assad Regime Built a Mass Grave in Syria. Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in ...

Former President Bashar al-Assad brutally clamped down on peaceful protests like this one in 2011, triggering the 13-year civil war. ... "We just don't want to be ruled by religion." ...