After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

Since the overthrow of the dictator Bashar al-Assad, business owners have been waiting for Washington to ease sanctions and pave the way for an economic renewal. By Raja Abdulrahim Page 1 of 10 ...

Bashar-al Assad, luxury refugee in Moscow. 5mo. ... Assad has acquired apartments in two 300m-high, 78-storey towers. The report refers to 22 ultra-luxurious apartments with saunas, ...

The intricate scheme, spanning four continents, appears to justify concerns that the military arsenal of Bashar al-Assad, the deposed Syrian dictator, could fall into dangerous hands.

Missing American: A top Syrian general under President Bashar al-Assad told U.S. investigators that Austin Tice, an American journalist who went missing in 2012, was dead and provided the possible ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

The government of Bashar al-Assad made the media in Syria a tool of its propaganda. It arrested and intimidated writers and journalists who opposed the official line. Books were censored and ...

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

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 legacy of Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria remains one of the most controversial in modern Middle Eastern history. For over two decades, his presidency was marked by both internal strife and ...