Assad and his wife have three children: Hafez, the PhD student, Zein and Karim. A 2022 US State Department report to Congress said the extended Assad family's net worth was between $1bn (£790m ...

"We're so happy: we've been saved from Assad! I wish all dictators could suffer the same fate," smiled Medjit Zein, 40, who said he planned to return to Aleppo from Gaziantep in a month or so once ...

Clashes in Syrian Western coasts intensified on March 7 as the Syrian army sent large military reinforcements to the coast to ...

Local armed men are present, but not the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which spearheaded the rebel offensive against Assad. Siham Zein al-Din, who lost her son in 2014 after he defected from ...