After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian ...

Syria became a narco-state under Bashar al-Assad. The regime mass-produced the synthetic drug captagon. The business led the country to account for 80% of global production and brought in between ...

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...

The 1982 Hama assault is often described as the model for Bashar al-Assad's later crackdown on the rebellion that began in 2011 and toppled him this month. When rebels seized Hama on Dec. 6 ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one ...

Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival: The regime presented itself as the only ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On the eve of his capital’s fall, Bashar al-Assad climbed into a Russian armoured vehicle with his eldest ...

Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad was in Moscow to attend a ceremony marking his son Hafez’s receipt of a PhD in mathematics when opposition forces launched their surprise offensive on ...