Former Syrian President Bashar Assad has not been seen on camera in over a week, staying virtually silent throughout the downfall of his regime. The deposed dictator and his family escaped the ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal regime of imprisonment and torture is on full display this week as victorious rebels dig through the dictator's now-liberated political prisons.

However, time is not on the side of the rebels. The longer it takes to form a replacement government, the greater are the risks that it might never materialise. Assad’s downfall has given hope ...

There’s not a whole lot of moral clarity available in the treacherous political and historical landscape of Syria, except ...

The forces of coercion were on his side ... Assad’s friends and enemies got it wrong — in all likelihood, for many reasons. But one stands out and is worth a closer look: Our regnant view ...

U.S. officials say they are closely monitoring the situation in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. It could have ...

Syria was on the Soviets’ side during the Cold War ... Not surprisingly, the U.S. and the European Union view Assad as an enemy. Partly because of his brutality toward his own people, Western ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday claimed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was behind the rapid fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria last week, as Israeli officials cautioned the ...

Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al-Assad. It was 2007 and the insurgency ... she proudly stood by her husband’s side, ignoring the horrors inflicted by Syrian ...