With Assad gone, Syria’s new government has a chance to prove that his rule was not only vicious but built on a lie. The fact ...

In his first public comments since fleeing Syria and being evacuated to Russia, former leader Bashar al-Assad says his ...

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad planned to keep fighting rebel forces in the country before Russia evacuated him, ...

Assad’s regime collapsed faster than anyone had predicted. The sudden nature of its downfall left many scrambling for answers ...

A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more ...

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...

After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more ...

The Syrian rebels who forced President Bashar al-Assad to flee the country for asylum in Russia say they are forming a new ...

Assad's statement on Monday appeared to contradict the announcement made by the Russian foreign ministry after the Kremlin had granted asylum to the former Syrian leader. The ministry said that Assad ...

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.