While Mr Al Assad lived in a luxury private residence in Al Malki district, a short distance from Al Muhajireen palace, his father preferred the Al Rawda Palace in Abu Rummaneh, also a short ...

giving the impression that Assad had been planning to be in power for a long time. Back in his own palace, a room was set up as a doctor’s surgery and another for a barber — complete with the ...

The lavish lifestyle and taste of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are on display in a video that shows the abandoned garage of the presidential palace in Damascus filled with luxury cars.

Rebel forces in Syria have unveiled the opulent lifestyle of former President Bashar al-Assad after storming his presidential palace in Damascus. Videos circulated online show a fleet of luxury ...

"We found a vast network of tunnels which lead to the presidential palace" on a neighbouring hill, Salim said. During Assad's rule, Qasyun was off limits to the people of Damascus because it was ...

Now, its doors are wide open. CBS News found the palace patrolled by a rebel soldier named Ahmed who had nearly been killed opposing Assad's forces nine years ago. "I was personally targeted and I ...