AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...

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 ...

Life in Syria after the Bashar al-Assad regime 24 hours ago Syria is looking at a long road ahead as it starts to recover from more than a decade of civil war and the brutal dictatorship of former ...

Rebel forces in Syria have unveiled the opulent lifestyle of former President Bashar al-Assad after storming his presidential palace in Damascus. Videos circulated online show a fleet of luxury ...

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar, who documented countless cases of human rights abuses during the time of the Bashar al-Assad government, revealed himself as First Lieutenant Farid al ...

A family photograph in an album found in Bashar al-Assad's Damascus ... narrowed down to a single family. The elder al-Assad, due to his military background, had been able to rely on a core ...

“The orders to photograph and document the crimes of Bashar al-Assad’s regime came from the highest levels of power to ensure that executions were carried out,” Caesar said. He explained ...

Attaf’s visit marked the first by an Algerian official to Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December. Following Assad’s ouster, Algeria kept its embassy in Damascus open.

Russia’s attitude toward the new Syrian government has “improved significantly” since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December, and Damascus is weighing Moscow’s demands ...

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