Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

Madhan, a Syrian military police defector, risked his life 11 years ago to provide the first official evidence of torture on ...

The family’s oldest son, Basil, was supposed to follow his father as ruler ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed ...

Very quickly after Assad and his family fled Syria when the autocratic ruler was toppled ... (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) “The ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing ... of the former regime have taken refuge. Assad and his family fled to Russia when rebels swept across ...

And then there's black graffiti all over the walls, cursing Bashar al-Assad. Syrian friends and family are touring the ... AL-SHALCHI: "He kept his people living in poverty while he lived in ...

Five years earlier, Shahin had shepherded his family out of their native Syria as the country was engulfed in violent conflict between rebel groups and brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad. They’d ...

Assad and his family are Alawite ... while their cautious elders wait nervously for what comes next. As Bashar al-Assad's tightly controlled empire unravels, we're visiting the very heart of ...

It’s been a month since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, ending more than five decades of his family’s rule in Syria and almost 14 years of civil war. Al-Assad escaped to Russia on December 8 ...

Vladimir Putin allegedly "stopped taking calls" from the former Syrian president, Bashar ... al-Sheikh, he discussed how he believed the Russian president may have "tricked" Assad during his ...