Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in Tsar Vladimir’s rotting kingdom.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains ...

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

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...