President Assad was 'obsessed with sex and had a lover who also procured wives of high-ranking officials for him to sleep with before he ordered her assassination'

According to one former Hezbollah operative, Assad would spend hours glued to his phone, retreating into games rather than ...

Assad was ‘obsessed with sex and video games as despot ordered assassination of secret lover who helped arrange trysts’

SYRIA’S exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad has been accused of being obsessed with sex and video games during his despotic reign. The tyrant – who oversaw the torture and murder of ...

The Damascus book fair draws crowds, with censorship eased in post-Assad Syria

Damascus is hosting its first international book fair since Bashar Assad fell, and publishers say censorship has almost ...
The New York Times

Putin, Still Harboring Assad, Welcomes New Syrian Leader to Moscow Again

This is the second time that President Vladimir V. Putin has hosted President Ahmed al-Sharaa since the fall of the Russia-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

Questions around a compound of Shiite refugees from Syria show lingering post-Assad fears

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad's fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...

Questions around a compound of refugees from Syria show lingering post-Assad fears

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad's fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...

Questions around a compound of Shiite refugees from Syria in Lebanon show lingering post-Assad fears

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad’s fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...
War on the RocksOpinion

Syria’s Post-Assad Pulse Check

In December 2024, forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham defeated Assad regime forces, leading to the regime’s collapse and ...
New York Post

Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...
Reporters Without Borders

“Syria: the forbidden witnesses of the Assad regime” — New RSF documentary shows what it was like to be a reporter under one of the world’s worst crackdowns on journalism

Assad’s regime, journalists in Syria were spied upon, put behind bars, abducted and even killed.  After the fall of the dictatorship on 8 December 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) produced a ...