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 ...

Members of the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee believe the legal basis used by the EU executive to push the ...

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Moscow has refused to extradite toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad to Syria, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with The New York Times on April 23. It is the first official ...

For years, Ahmed al-Shara was the leader of a rebel group once allied with Al Qaeda that was fighting the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. After a rebel coalition led by his group ...

Since his rebel coalition toppled President Bashar al-Assad in December, Mr. al-Shara, who spoke to The New York Times this month, has been navigating more complex geopolitical waters. And that ...

Syrian authorities said a wheat shipment arrived on Sunday at the country's Mediterranean port of Latakia, the first since the December ouster of former ruler Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian authority ...

IMAGE: Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Syria's then president Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, January 25, 2005. Photograph: ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN PRESS ...

According to news reports the English born and educated first lady, Asma al-Assad, had moved to Russia with her children at least a week earlier leaving Bashar to feed the family ...

A symbolic Syrian political forum that was banned under Bashar al-Assad relaunched on Wednesday, declaring its determination to work for democracy and freedoms, months after the former ruler's ...