After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Areas within the Idlib province are still being developed, Abu Tarek explains, and, unlike under the Assad regime, it’s happening under a Sharia society. A new mall he frequents in Al-Dana has ...

'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and consolidated his ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus. Her head wrapped in a scarf, she rocked back ...

A post shared on Facebook claims that deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is returning to ophthalmology in Russia. Verdict: Misleading There is no evidence Assad will be returning to ophthalmology ...

Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on September 23 ...

Vogue magazine published a profile on Asma al-Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was titled "A Rose in the Desert," and in the words of Joan Juliet Buck, the writer, Asma ...

How did Bashar al-Assad come to power? Bashar was Hafez's second son. Gawky and cerebral, he trained in London as an ophthalmologist in the 1990s, and married a British Syrian woman, Asma.

For 54 years, Hafez and Bashar al-Assad cultivated divides that threaten Syria's future even after their dynasty's fall.

Syrian leader Bashar Assad issued what appeared to be his first public statement since he was ousted and fled with his family to Russia more than a week ago.