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

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 ...

A rare opportunity for Lebanon and Syria to repair their relations and move beyond decades of political domination and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa will travel to the United Arab Emirates for his second visit to a Gulf state as president on Sunday, ...

Syria’s president on Saturday received a Republican member of Congress in the first visit to the country by American ...

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 ...

Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private ...

The new Syrian leadership is seeking to strengthen ties with Arab and Western leaders following the fall of President Bashar ...

The involvement of the Republican Guard meant that "Bashar (al-Assad) gave the orders" relating to the operation, according to a former senior Republican Guard member. The guard answered only to ...