Assad served as president since 2000 after taking over from his father, who ruled Syria for nearly three decades. Under the ...

Assad's departure marks a significant shift in Middle East power dynamics, weakening Iran and Russia's influence.

Assad, who fled to Russia, will be forced to stand trial. That is not deterring activists who have worked for years to ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Bashar al-Assad is safely ensconced in Russia, which had long supported his prison state with arms, fighter jets, and forces ...

Syria's new interim prime minister pledged to protect minority rights as Washington's top diplomat flew to the region on ...

As Bashar Al-Assad retreats to Russia, Israel races to destroy military assets — wiping out Syria's air force, sinking its ...

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...

There, Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a series of strategic miscalculations that will undermine Russia’s influence ...

Israel pounded Syria with hundreds of airstrikes Tuesday, eliminating most of the country’s strategic weapons stockpiles in a move officials say will prevent the dangerous weapons from ...

The Kremlin confirmed on Dec. 11 that longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had fled to Moscow after rebels took the ...

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...