Cyclist Bassel Soufi visits the summer resort of ousted Bashar al-Assad as he tours a part of his daily training in Burj Islam near Latakia, Syria, December 13, 2024. (credit: REU

Assad, has reportedly filed for divorce, citing dissatisfaction with life in Moscow. According to unnamed Turkish and Arab media outlets, she plans to return to the UK and has requested deportation approval from Russian authorities.

Israel is celebrating the fall of Assad because it breaks the noose that Iran had been patiently tightening around Israel’s borders in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Tehran’s pincer is now broken and rendered useless. From the point of view of Israel’s wider conflict with the Islamic Republic, the collapse of Assad’s regime is a strategic victory.

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President in 2000 following the death of his father,

After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more compassionate hands. After all, his heir, Bashar al-Assad, was a doctor trained in ophthalmology in London — the birthplace of the Spice Girls! How bad could he be?

My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” according to a statement attributed to Assad and shared on Telegram.

Once a self-styled modernizer, Syria’s president bought time with a harsh crackdown, but his government eventually succumbed to its many enemies.

Bashir, announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former rebels who toppled

Bashar Assad and thousands of his henchmen will face trial for the horrific regime inflicted on the Syrian people, says a leading war crimes investigator. Assad was given refuge in Moscow by Vladimir Putin after fleeing Syria when his regime collapsed as ...

The Syrian rebels who forced President Bashar al-Assad to flee the country for asylum in Russia ... The U.S. has conducted airstrikes in Syria to prevent the terrorist group ISIS from taking control, according to the U.S. Central Command.

Assad, Syria’s autocratic ruler, was ousted Sunday after a quarter century in power, toppled after an Islamist rebel offensive that hurtled through Syrian cities and towns, and finally Damascus, the capital and once-feared seat of Assad’s power,

In a country of 25 million with almost 75 percent Sunnis and only about 15 percent Alawite Shia Muslims, the Assad regime of the Alawite minority was sustained over half a century by brutal repression.