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 ...

Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a ...

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

Amine Ayoub-is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco. The fall of Bashar al-Assad was supposed to signal the beginning of a new era in Syria. After years of civil war, mass slaughter ...

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 ...