TWO former slaves have issued a stark warning to the West about Syria’s new “reformer” president Ahmed al-Sharaa. Yazidi ...

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

As Syria enters the post-Assad era, EU policymakers need to learn from their failed approach to the country's civil war. The post Europe Needs to Update Its Thinking for a Post-Assad Syria ...

I was born in the mid-1980s under the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, our ousted president. I learned early that being a good citizen meant not thinking.

A barrage of post-mortem analyses have sought to investigate the stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, key details remain unreported, and misconceptions are beginning to ...

Assad lived in quiet luxury while Syrians went hungry Syria’s ousted leader cultivated a modest image. Footage revealing hidden opulence tells a different story.

President Bashar al-Assad ruled his country with an iron fist for 24 years, as his father had done for 30 years before him. When he appeared to prevail in Syria’s civil war, it was widely ...

I mean, I'm thinking about the fact that he has always backed Bashar al-Assad, as you've just described, who jailed political opponents, who used sarin gas on civilians. Now he's given him asylum.

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...

Meanwhile, crowds gathered to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers, and gunfire after opposition fighters entered Damascus following a historic advance.

The decades-long reign of Bashar al-Assad is officially over. The now former Syrian leader has fled the country less than two weeks after a shocking offensive by rebel groups reignited a stagnant ...

How are the Sunni states thinking about Assad’s fall? Because they were broadly supportive of getting rid of Assad for a while, and then they were concerned about ISIS.