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Bashar Assad never intended to go into politics ... and the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, rose to prominence. It emerged from the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, and known as the Nusra ...

In the days since former President Bashar al-Assad's fall, Syrians have begun the anguished search for family members who vanished under the dictator's regime. Mohammed Saeed Zidane and his wife ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...

The nearly quarter-century rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad came to a stunning end, when he fled the country by plane for an unknown destination as rebel troops stormed into the capital ...

In 2012, then-President Barack Obama declared a “red line,” warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt direct US intervention in Syria’s then-year ...

This was President Bashar al-Assad's answer to mostly unarmed protests that began in 2011. Many who rose against Assad then, are still here. That's the Zidane family. Mohammed Saeed Zidane (in ...

Pressure on Mr. al-Shara to make changes to his government grew at home and abroad after violence in Syria’s coastal region this month. Clashes erupted between remnants of the Assad regime and ...

Ms. Erhaim is a Syrian journalist working as a media and gender consultant in the Middle East and North Africa. What is life without Bashar al-Assad? Michel Kilo, the Syrian intellectual and ...