The surprise ceasefire between Iran and Israel, brokered by the Trump administration, has raised fresh questions about th ...

Syrian authorities arrested Wassim Al Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar Al Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ...

Deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad (left) has been a target for the AI-generated memes [Getty] Anime fans in the MENA region are making animations of real-life events using the new Studio Ghibli ...

In addition to around 140 killed in apparent revenge attacks, the dead include at least 50 from government forces and 45 fighters loyal to Assad.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.

An account bearing the name of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ’s son, Hafez Bashar al-Assad, has been suspended from X after describing the family’s final days in the country before the rebel ...

World Fall of Bashar al-Assad Bashar al-Assad's strategy of chaos By Benjamin Barthe Published on February 8, 2025, at 5:00 am (Paris), updated on February 8, 2025, at 9:56 am 7 min read Lire en ...

Vladimir Putin (right) and Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow in 2015. A former aide to Assad has alleged that Putin did not take Assad's calls before the fall of the regime.

A Syrian former equestrian champion has told how he was jailed and tortured for 21 years after he beat Bashar al Assad's older brother in a competition. Adnan Kassar, once a celebrated figure in ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in ...

Asma and Bashar al-Assad at the opening of the 2022 Asian Games. AFP via Getty Images She is so sick “she can’t be in the same room” with hardly anyone else, the source said.