The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

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QATAR’S MINISTER of State Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi meets with Syria’s de facto leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, after the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus.

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...

He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, a tyrant who had ruled Syria for 30 years. The family’s oldest son, Basil, was supposed to follow his father as ruler ...

For more than five decades, Syria has lived under a repressive regime that has made freedom of expression a distant dream. Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ...

Katelyn Fossett is a senior editor at POLITICO Magazine. As executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a nonprofit established to respond to attacks on civilians by former dictator ...

From our special correspondent in Syria – A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their ...

The first international commercial flight since the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad landed at Damascus International Airport on Tuesday, arriving from Qatar. More Omar Sanadiki ...

A fighter with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that led the overthrow of the Assad regime, stands on the terrace of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family villa outside Latakia.

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 side of the road in the village of Burj ...