Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

The ancient city, an early stronghold of opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s oppressive regime, was ravaged by a government crackdown. New York Times correspondents in Homs spoke to people who were ...

Bashar al-Assad was no one’s idea of a despot. And when he freed some of Syria’s political prisoners in 2000, the West had more to go on than “vibes”. France gave him the Legion of Honour ...

Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al-Assad. It was 2007 and the insurgency ... much-feared Syrian security services had eyes on us from the moment we landed in ...

The main commander of the fighters who toppled Bashar al-Assad said that he would dissolve the security forces of the former regime, close its prisons and hunt down anyone involved in the torture ...

Now, after Assad’s stunning defeat, families, some of whom returned from fleeing the country, pick through the dust-choked rubble of what was once their homes. They gather at Jobar’s chewed-up ...

WASHINGTON – From the White House, President Joe Biden called the collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime “a moment of historic opportunity” for the country’s long ...

With Syrian opposition forces advancing rapidly toward the capital, Damascus, President Bashar Assad’s fate lay in Russia’s hands as his army melted away. Still haunted by video of the mob ...

After Syrian opposition forces led an offensive that rapidly swept through Syria's major cities in a matter of weeks and ultimately led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government, US President ...

His gaunt face and haunted eyes have once again become a symbol of Syrian resistance. The body of Mazen al-Hamada, a former prisoner of Bashar al-Assad’s security services and an early activist ...

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