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 ...

Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the regime’s ouster, the removal of the once ubiquitous relics has offered ...

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.

An account bearing the name of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s son, Hafez Bashar al-Assad, has been suspended from X after describing the family’s final days in the country before the rebel ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin (right) and Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow in 2015. A former aide to Assad has alleged that Putin did not take Assad's calls before the fall of the regime.

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of ...

Three days before the start of the battle to oust Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian political figure I trust for his insights and analysis called me. With my 18 years of experience in journalism, his words ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in ...