When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not only his 24-year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family ruling Syria. Before Assad took office in 2000 ...

Russian news agencies reported on Dec. 8 that Syria's Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia, where they have been granted asylum by Russian authorities, according to a Kremlin source.

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

Syria's Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia and have been granted asylum by the Russian authorities, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a Kremlin source.

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children ...

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria ... He wasn’t expected to be the last of the line for his family’s despotic dynasty, either—at least not this soon. A lightning advance ...

Bashar al-Assad was not originally poised to be his ... Putin was behind the decision to offer exile to al-Assad and his family but that there are no immediate plans for the two leaders to meet.

The Assad family kept an authoritarian grip on Syria for 54 years—the first 30 under Hafez al-Assad, and the last 24 under his son Bashar al-Assad. The country has faced a bloody civil war since ...

After Bashar al-Assad and his family fled to Russia, Syrian residents gradually became aware of the former dictator’s indecent lifestyle. It was in Latakia, a Syrian city on the Mediterranean ...