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 ...

Russia propped up Bashar Assad’s brutal regime for years, including with air strikes recently on rebel forces as they swept across the country in a lightning uprising. Moscow is now scrambling ...

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 ...

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The sea change toward tenuous hope in Syria over the last two weeks has been tempered with a grim accounting of the last 14 years of war and a half a century of authoritarian rule under the Assad ...

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 ...