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

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on ...

BASHAR al-Assad’s 24-year rule came to an abrupt ... toppling Assad’s regime and ending his family’s 53-year dynasty. Facing overwhelming defeat, Assad fled to Moscow under the protection ...

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 ...

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of reform, the brutal suppression of dissent during the Damascus Spring, and his ...

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

“Bashar al-Assad visits his aunt in her modest home ... He received President #Assad and his family today, walking on his feet. The Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic,” an English translat ...

We were poor and they would have arrested my family,” he said ... stole food meant for soldiers! His salary was only $25, but he had no choice.” Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself ...

A bookseller shows a volume that was reportedly banned during the rule of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad — LOUAI ... going on to take Damascus and toppling Assad, ending more than half a ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...