The humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, with the unloved dictator forced to flee as a baying Islamist mob overran the presidential palace in Damascus, was a ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League after 12 years of political isolation. This dramatic turn of events was ...

The funeral of Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad. His "departure" was much more stately and calm than his son’s retreat this past week. For some 30 years, he had ruled Syria with an ...

It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in ...

Hafez al-Assad was the president of Syria from 1970 until his death in 2000, a leader who shaped the country through a combination of military dominance, political maneuvering, and brutal repression.

The collapse of the Assad regime was expected to increase instability, but so far Ahmed Al-Sharaa has attempted to make ...