Four months into their life in exile, the Assad family is — mostly — lying low in luxury. Mr. Assad’s wife, Asma, and the two youngest of their adult children — daughter Zein, 22, and son Karim, 21 — ...

In December that year, he and Asma married. A Reuters profile of the First Lady suggests the Assad side of the family is not keen on her. Asma’s family is Sunni Muslim, while her husband belongs ...

Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad, has filed for divorce after she was not satisfied with her life in Moscow, where her family is staying under asylum ...

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 ...

The incident comes as the Syrian Alawite minority, to which the Assad family belonged, continues to be subjected to acts of retribution, including murders, by factors that identify with the new ...

Said, 65, lived most of his life under Assad family rule. Father-and-son dictators had portrayed themselves as the sole providers of safety and services to Syrians. But they were corrupt ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow. Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a ...

Syria’s army was disproportionately made up of Alawites, members of the same religious minority to which the Assad family belonged, who were favoured for promotion and other privileges.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad.

Hafez's son, Bashar Assad, who succeeded him as the 19th president of Syria, was recently ousted in 2024 by Ahmed Al Sharaa's rebel army and fled to Moscow, Russia, alongside his family ...

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn on Saturday, March 29 nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability ...