A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

While Mr Al Assad lived in a luxury private residence in Al Malki district, a short distance from Al Muhajireen palace, his father preferred the Al Rawda Palace in Abu Rummaneh, also a short ...

The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s ...

helping Mr. al-Assad, for years. Awaiting them was Ahmed al-Shara, who had survived a decade of Russian airstrikes to emerge as Syria’s new interim leader. He stood in the presidential palace ...

Ayman Oghanna for NPR An HTS fighter seen inside the Assad family villa outside Latakia. Ayman Oghanna for NPR “The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad,” it reads in Arabic.

Syria’s interim president is in the Turkish capital for talks expected to focus on Syria’s economic recovery and the presence ...