Reporting from The Atlantic reveals how personal hubris, mismanagement, and ignored diplomatic lifelines accelerated the fall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo released by the official Syrian Arab news agency (SANA) on 16 February shows then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

People holding a large Syrian opposition flag at Umayyad Square in Damascus, marking a new dawn after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. AFP via Getty Images The Issue: A rebel group has forced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia ...

Syrian rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad and he had fled Damascus on Sunday. But what is HTS, and how did it rock the long-simmering ...

SYRIA’S exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad has been accused of being obsessed with sex and video games during his despotic reign. The tyrant – who oversaw the torture and murder of ...

Damascus — The European Union backs a peaceful, inclusive transition in Syria, top French and German diplomats said Friday as they visited Damascus to meet with new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. French ...

Under the previous dynastic regime, Syria went from a homeland for all to a "real estate registry" for the al-Assad family.

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests – and vying for power in the ...

Syria was home to one of the first civilizations on earth. Today, the country is picking up the pieces from the ruins of humanity's oldest sin. Half a century of dictatorship between Bashar al-Assad ...

Officials say the meeting addressed transitional justice and ways to hold perpetrators accountable, including Bashar al Assad ...

(CNN) — Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...