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 corporate web behind his wealth. Yasar Ibrahim, the ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

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 ...

Syrian president Bashar Assad was meeting the Queen today, after publicly rebuffing a call from Tony Blair to shut down Palestinian terror organisations operating in ...

Bashar al-Assad, the president of 24 years, was gone. Opposition fighters had advanced towards Damascus, taking major cities including Aleppo. I couldn't believe what I was seeing: Syria was free.

(Illustrative) Exiled former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad flees on a Syrian plane after rebel forces took over Damascus, December 8, 2024. (photo credit: Canva, screenshot, SECTION 27A ...

An aerial view of the site where thousands of people believed to be killed and buried by the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, considered one of the largest mass grave site to be discovered in Al ...

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 ...

The involvement of the Republican Guard meant that "Bashar (al-Assad) gave the orders" relating to the operation, according to a former senior Republican Guard member. The guard answered only to ...

Deadly violence in Syria's Alawite heartland is the worst since rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad in December. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 830 civilians had been killed.