After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what ...

Bushra al-Assad, Bashar's older sister, was married to Assef Shawkat, the former deputy defence minister who was killed along with other senior officials in a bomb attack in Damascus on July 18.

Asma Akhras Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, poses for the camera on May 20, 2007 with deaf Syrian children, unseen, at the Arab Cultural Center in Damascus, where the children ...

In 2012, Barack Obama declared a "red line," warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt direct US intervention in Syria’s then-year-old civil war.

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 lighting rebel advance ...

Millions of Syrians fled during the civil war more than a decade ago. After the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, many are considering returning home. But what is left to return to?

Bushra Al-Assad, also the widow of Syria’s former deputy defence chief Assef Shawkat, had challenged her inclusion in the EU sanctions list, arguing she was a “housewife” with no role in the ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued his first statement since the dramatic fall of his regime last week, asserting that "asylum was never an option for him", according to news ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family have been granted asylum in Russia and are now in Moscow. Assad's departure marks the end of nearly 25 years of brutal rule.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's widowed sister Bushra has left Syria and is living in the United Arab Emirates, a source close to the UAE government said on Thursday.