Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

F or decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad, “our eternal leader.” He died in 2000. He was succeeded by his son Bashar, who received similar praises ...

Roses have filled the Syrian capital, Damascus, as people openly celebrated the anniversary of the revolution for the first time in 14 years after the toppling of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad ...

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Critics trolled Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence on social media for her ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I AM MY HOMELAND") JANDALI: (Singing in non-English language). SIMON: And now, of course, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen. Malek Jandali joins us now from New York.

Drone footage captures the Sednaya prison in the Syrian capital of Damascus, compared with president Bashar al-Assad's luxurious presidential palace. The footage was taken days after Islamist-led ...

The concert organised by the Molham Volunteering Team, a humanitarian organisation founded by Syrian students, also marked a month since a lightning insurgency toppled former President Bashar al ...

The many monuments of the Assad regime that once dotted the Syrian city of Aleppo have been toppled, torn or burned. The large statue on which President Bashar al-Assad’s late brother was ...

In Damascus, Syrians Reclaim Freedoms Off Limits Under al-Assad Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported Nescafe.

Bashar al-Assad’s interests might surprise you (Picture: Getty Images) The brutal 24-year reign of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad came to an end in spectacular fashion this weekend after he and ...