Reporting from The Atlantic reveals how personal hubris, mismanagement, and ignored diplomatic lifelines accelerated the fall ...

SYRIA’S exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad has been accused of being obsessed with sex and video games during his despotic reign. The tyrant – who oversaw the torture and murder of ...

The US has rolled back a series of restrictive economic sanctions put in place during the rule of Bashar al-Assad. Syrians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” ...

Warning: This article includes graphic accounts of what some prisoners experienced in Assad's prisons. In the shadow of Syria’s brutal civil war, one institution stands as a chilling symbol of the ...

His presidency became synonymous with repression, a devastating civil war and international isolation. As Syria’s old order collapsed around him, the leader once portrayed as untouchable was forced ...

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” ...