As rebels closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

The cases are still rare where organized crime and wholesale corruption get backed up by a repressive, autocratic government. As in Venezuela, North Korea, and Russia, deposed Syrian leader Bashar ...

On October 7, at another festival called the Nova in southern Israel, thousands of similarly aged attendees were massacred.

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday appointed Osama al-Rifai, a moderate Muslim cleric known for having opposed now ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, as the country's grand mufti.

The report cites regional intelligence officials who believe this stopover was not only prearranged, but may have involved direct coordination between Russian defense personnel and Assad’s entourage.

Shortly after Fawakherji was formally expelled from the Syrian Artists Syndicate for allegedly endorsing the Assad government and demonstrating a lack of concern for the plight of the Syrian ...

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 ...

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