For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...

RUBA: (Speaking Arabic). FENG: ...Where Ruba said she saw people of several sects flee, not just Alawites like her - an offshoot of Shia Muslims which former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his ...

Then-Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a meeting with then-Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem ... As a result, in today’s post-Assad Syria, China faces complicated dilemmas.

"I pray to God that Bashar [al-Assad] stays in a dungeon underground and that Russia, which used to protect him, can't help him. "I pray to God to put him somewhere underground and that he is left ...

Now, however, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has presented the U.S. with a similar opportunity. For years, Beijing has consistently sided with Bashar al-Assad in his brutal repression ...

As Syria’s new government strives to gain international legitimacy after overthrowing the Bashar al-Assad regime, Western countries seem open to giving a chance to the government led by Ahmed al ...

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The tunnels, seen by an AFP correspondent, are among secrets of president Bashar al-Assad’s rule exposed since rebels toppled him on Dec 8. “We entered this enormous barracks of the Republican ...

Some of the changes were less surprising, such as removing all references to ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and his late father, Hafez al-Assad. Others, however, sparked swift backlash.