When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...

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

Yet despite the scale of the attack, no military or legal action was taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the time. Assad has since denied responsibility, though military insiders say ...

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 ...

When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over his vast empire of ...

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice. The basement of an underground ...

While committed to that deal, Kurdish officials have objected to the way Syria's governing Islamists are shaping the transition from Bashar al-Assad's ... led by the Barzani family.

While committed to that deal, Kurdish officials have objected to the way Syria's governing Islamists are shaping the transition from Bashar al-Assad's ... led by the Barzani family.