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

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

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 ...

Yet despite the scale of the attack, no military or legal action was taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the time. Assad has since denied responsibility, though military insiders say ...

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice. The basement of an underground ...

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 ...

Syrian security forces have killed several Assad regime loyalists in an operation in the coastal city of Latakia, official ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

Two US Congress members landed in Damascus on Friday to meet Syrian officials, the first visit by American lawmakers to the war-ravaged country since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power by an ...

Bashar al-Assad, the president of 24 years ... For weeks, Damascus's main Umayyad Square became a hub of celebrations. Young and old talked freely about politics and everywhere Syria's future ...