A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an ...

The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month have named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president in a push to project a united front as they face the mo ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Inside Syria's infamous prisons once controlled by Bashar al-Assad, haunting graffiti etched ... some graffiti exhibit a dark humor or whimsy. Cartoon faces, a joint of hashish, or an imagined ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria's then-ruler Bashar al-Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled ... Some drawings are even playful, like googly-eye cartoon faces or a joint of hashish.

When President Bashar al-Assad fled the country ... In the footage, he can be heard laughing hysterically, interrupted by gasps that could be sobs. He went straight to his grandmother’s house ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...

The tunnels, seen by an AFP correspondent, are among secrets of president Bashar al-Assad’s rule exposed since rebels toppled him on Dec 8. “We entered this enormous barracks of the Republican ...

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 this ...