Meanwhile, crowds gathered to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers, and gunfire after opposition fighters entered Damascus following a historic advance.

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

One sign leads to Hafez state guesthouse near the residence, known as the "Damascus Hall," where Bashar al-Assad often held official meetings. Security forces in the area have stated that the ...

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power ... a retired businessman who for decades lived a block away from the Assad family residence in Damascus. “His children went to normal schools ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that Bashar al-Assad's wife has filed for divorce after being exiled to Moscow alongside her husband. The initial reports, which came from Turkish and Arab sources ...

Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a ...

Turkish Airlines has announced that it will not carry Israeli and Iranian nationals on its flights to Damascus, according to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On the eve of his capital’s fall, Bashar al-Assad climbed into a Russian armoured vehicle with his eldest ...

overthrew the government of Bashar al-Assad in early December. After 13 years of civil war, restoring security is one of the top priorities for H.T.S. The group has installed people like Basel al ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...