The trailer has been met with enthusiasm, as people express excitement over a cinema industry without the censorship and ...

During his two-decade rule, Bashar al-Assad and his officials carried out numerous atrocities, some of which have been documented by human rights groups. Now, as Syria begins a new chapter, the hard ...

A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in, the interior ministry said Tuesday, ...

Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad last month was named on Wednesday the country ...

QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

One of those was the Assad summer home, with a private beach on the Mediterranean. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) QARDAHA, LATAKIA, ...

of Bashar al-Assad's personal funds being locked in a London bank. While frozen, these assets represent only a fraction of the £163 million linked to Assad’s inner circle. Their presence has ...

Damascus, Syria — Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked ... Although Syrian President Bashar Assad was toppled last month in a lightning insurgency, the country's dire economic ...

At left is a vertical billboard of Assad. Trees and debris are seen at left. Anti-regime fighters drive past a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad along the M5 highway in the newly ...

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat said Friday the kingdom was seeking to help Syria's new authorities secure the lifting of international sanctions, during his first visit to Damascus since Bashar ...

“You can walk around Damascus now without encountering checkpoints, without having to see pictures of Bashar al-Assad everywhere,” said Bassam al-Kuwatli, president of the Syrian liberal party Ahrar. ...