Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household In 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in ...

Mass graves which a Syrian advocacy group says are filled with the bodies of more than 100,000 of ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s torture victims have been uncovered. Warning: graphic. The head of ...

Syrians are marking the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, as the fractured nation struggles to overcome sectarianism and rebuild its economy following 14 years of civil war. The ...

If not for his handsome older brother's appetite for risk, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad might still be a bookish ophthalmologist living in London. Bashar was never meant to rule — that was Bassel ...

Syria’s ousted President Bashar al-Assad and his family are living a secluded life of luxury in Moscow more than a year after his regime collapsed, with al-Assad reportedly returning to his former ...

The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has raised critical questions about the future of Syria and who speaks for its people. One group aiming for that role is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which, under ...

AMID a vicious civil war that has left thousands upon thousands dead, this couple has managed to cling to power. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has stubbornly clung to power despite four years of ...

The near-broke central bank sent almost $400 million in bulk shipments between 2018 and 2019 to Russia when the dictator was indebted to the Kremlin. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad piled almost $400m in cash ...

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by By Erika Solomon Christiaan Triebert Haley Willis ...

On Sunday morning, as gaunt detainees flooded out of Syrian regime prisons and jubilant Damascenes streamed into the presidential palace to root around among abandoned designer shopping bags, Bashar ...