The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Trump's top Cabinet picks Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. and faced crucial votes today as they get closer to joining the president's ...

Lawmakers are set to grill Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel, three of Trump’s most controversial Cabinet ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Amr Salem mingles cheerfully with foreign investors and members of Syria’s interim government in a five-star hotel in ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Muhajireen presidential palace in central Damascus, one of the Syrian capital's most beautiful architectural landmarks, bears few scars from the looting that took place in December 2024 as the end ...