As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...

Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions on the nation’s new "terrorist" regime and called on the U.S. to help Syria in establishing a Democratic government.

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Gabbard sheds light on Assad visit, expresses shock intelligence community showed no interest at the time DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part ...

A former aide to Bashar Assad discussed the recent collapse of the Syrian government. He pointed to a "trick" by Russia's Vladimir Putin in an interview with Saudi media. Russia was unwilling to ...

Syria’s new administration has stepped up its campaign to track down and arrest members of the ousted Assad dictatorship, signaling that it would act with a heavy hand against people it claims ...

Government forces have been searching for Mohammed Kanjou al-Hassan, a former official in charge of military justice under the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, according to the Syrian ...

As the rebels who ousted Syria’s longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad, transition from insurgents to administrators, maintaining order in the streets of the capital has become a top priority.

Assad, the son of an Alawite farmer from Syria's mountainous coastal region, was one of a group of military officers in the Ba'ath Party, an Arab nationalist secular socialist movement. He took ...

President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address.