Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

In late January 1982, forces loyal to then-President Hafez al-Assad laid siege on the city under the pretext of suppressing an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood group. The attack was led by the ...

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

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on their revolutionary history ...

The former Hawaii congresswoman isn’t just unqualified to be director of national intelligence, she’s a political opportunist ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Read full article: ‘This is current history’: St. Augustine Beach issues ... DAMASCUS – The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel ...

But in recent weeks, her vulnerability has grown amid escalating concerns over her 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and her history of praising a controversial government whistleblower.

After a coalition of rebels toppled the Assad regime, the interim government they have set up in Damascus has moved quickly ...