Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and ...

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 ...

When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over his vast empire of ...

Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian ... of dollars and troops to help Assad maintain his grip. Iranian-backed militias such as Hezbollah have been fighting on the Assad side since at least 2012.

EXCLUSIVE: Through a popular uprising and a long and hideous civil war, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime tottered ... [The story arc] gives us a view since 2018 into Syria and beyond ...