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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When Bashar al-Assad assumed the presidency of Syria ... to which the Assad family belongs. Bashar, a trained ophthalmologist educated in London, was not the original heir to power.

The clashes are the worst since Assad was removed from power in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...

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 ...

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The Russian ambassador to Iraq emphasized his country's refusal to hand over Bashar al -Assad to the new Syrian rulers that he did not violate the asylum conditions in Moscow, which he and his family ...

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.