One of those was the Assad family's summer home, with a private beach on the Mediterranean. It's just outside the coastal city of Latakia. NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi visited the resort, which was ...

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.

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

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. On either ...