After 54 years, the brutal Assad regime has fallen to almost unanimous rejoicing. But any attempt to rebuild Syria's shattered society will first have to heal divides entrenched by two generations of ...

Syria was home to one of the first civilizations on earth. Today, the country is picking up the pieces from the ruins of humanity's oldest sin. Half a century of dictatorship between Bashar al-Assad ...

An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was shock, then joy, and a desperate hope that it might last. Damascus is a city nearly 5,000 ...

Syrians are marking the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, as the fractured nation struggles to overcome sectarianism and rebuild its economy following 14 years of civil war. The ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asma al-Assad with her husband Bashar, who was deposed as the leader of Syria earlier this month - Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty ...

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. On either ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assured his forces that the Russian army was coming to their aid against the rebels just hours before fleeing in secret to Moscow and abandoning his troops and ...

Syria defies Russia in bid to keep Assad in power even as the two allies prepare an offensive to retake Aleppo. Putin Backs Assad, Says Russian Warplanes Could Redeploy to Syria in Hours Russian ...

Thousands of Syrians gathered at the Umayyad Mosque to celebrate the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon reports from Damascus as questions linger about what the future holds.