A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, welcomed in the Emirati capital with a 21-gun salute, is gradually re-emerging after the global shunning that followed his violent crushing of his country’s ...

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

Analysts estimate Bashar al-Assad's regime raked in $5 billion per year from the Captagon drug trade, dwarfing Syria's official budget and making it a lifeline for the bankrupted country.

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.

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.

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 ...

The collapse of Assad's government ended a 24-year reign. The possible whereabouts of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began to emerge Sunday after he abruptly resigned and fled Damascus as ...

Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has fled the country, according to his closest ally, Russia. The dramatic move brings a sudden end to half a century of rule by Assad and his family.

Hopeful Syrians look toward a future without Bashar al-Assad | 60 Minutes 13:32. An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was ...

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 ...