AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and ...

Syria is looking at a long road ahead as it starts to recover from more than a decade of civil war and the brutal dictatorship of former leader Bashar al-Assad. The fighting has left more than ...

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar, who documented countless cases of human rights abuses during the time of the Bashar al-Assad government, revealed himself as First Lieutenant Farid al ...

A family photograph in an album found in Bashar al-Assad's Damascus residence, on December 11, 2024. In the center, his parents, on the right, his brother Bassel. LAURENCE GEAI / MYOP FOR LE ...

Rebel forces in Syria have unveiled the opulent lifestyle of former President Bashar al-Assad after storming his presidential palace in Damascus. Videos circulated online show a fleet of luxury ...

Damascus (AFP) – A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in, the interior ministry said Tuesday, making him one of the highest-profile figures captured ...

the jihadist precursor of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group that led the rebel offensive that toppled Assad on December 8. Assad himself has fled to Russia, an ally of his defunct government ...

“The orders to photograph and document the crimes of Bashar al-Assad’s regime came from the highest levels of power to ensure that executions were carried out,” Caesar said. He explained ...