Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

Vladimir Putin allegedly "stopped taking calls" from the former Syrian president, Bashar ... al-Sheikh, he discussed how he believed the Russian president may have "tricked" Assad during his ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on ...

The family’s oldest son, Basil, was supposed to follow his father as ruler ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed ...

It’s been a month since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, ending more than five decades of his family’s rule in Syria and almost 14 years of civil war. Al-Assad escaped to Russia on December 8 ...

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of ...

BASHAR al-Assad’s 24-year rule came to an abrupt ... toppling Assad’s regime and ending his family’s 53-year dynasty. Facing overwhelming defeat, Assad fled to Moscow under the protection ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

Very quickly after Assad and his family fled Syria when the autocratic ruler was toppled ... (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) “The ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...