AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar ... black flag of the Syrian opposition chanted for Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the Islamist leader who had masterminded the rebels’ offensive that brought down Mr ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and ...

The modern white building ... of the living rooms is black spray-painted graffiti cursing the recently deposed ruler. "The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad," it reads in Arabic.

And if you look hard enough, black and white stone ablaq features ... Syrians are quite literally picking up the pieces now that Bashar al-Assad and his government have been removed.

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...

An HTS fighter stands beside the hot tub of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Assad family villa outside Latakia. The modern white building is surrounded ... On the walls of one of the ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an unannounced trip to Syria in 2017 where she met with the now-deposed dictator ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile ... Jad—were still dressed in black mourners’ clothes, but they were hospitable, offering small cups of bitter coffee ...

(Ayman Oghanna for NPR) An HTS fighter stands beside the hot tub of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Assad family villa outside Latakia. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) The modern white ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations ... arrived last Tuesday in a caravan of white SUVs for a summit in Damascus and ...

"My face was white, like someone who'd come back from the dead," he said. Forty-three years later, Bashar al-Assad's ouster opened the way to gathering testimonies and combing the archives of Syria's ...