According to the Financial Times, Assad has acquired apartments in two 300m-high, 78-storey towers. The report refers to 22 ultra-luxurious apartments with saunas, Jacuzzis and marble decorations.

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, and has launched hundreds of airstrikes on Syria and seized a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone on Syrian territory since Assad’s fall. Syria’s foreign ministry said ...

For decades, former president Bashar al-Assad, his relatives and allies enjoyed wide-ranging privileges before his overthrow in a lightning Islamist-led offensive in December. Equestrian sports surged ...

Syrian rebels overthrew dictator Bashar al Assad in December. Sharahh broke with al Qaeda in 2016. Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa has transformed himself from al Qaeda militant to Syrian president in a ...

Since the overthrow of the dictator Bashar al-Assad, business owners have been waiting for Washington to ease sanctions and pave the way for an economic renewal. A market in the Old City of ...

Around 8 million people in Syria, almost a third of the country's population, were under observation by long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad's security forces before his fall from power last year ...

Al-Sharaa led the rebel offensive that toppled the Assad regime in 2024. He's a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison.

Once hailed as a Western-friendly reformer, Bashar al-Assad transformed into one of the world’s most brutal autocrats. From chemical weapons attacks to Russian military backing, this is the ...

Bashar Assad.The trial, which began last October, involved testimony from 30 witnesses, most of them Syrian nationals now living around the world.The court said the verdict could be appealed.

President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 14, a day after saying that he would order an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria in order ...