The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

After Assad’s fall activists urge that Syrian women's role in the nation's political future requires drafting a new constitution guaranteeing equality in rights ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

She is an amazingly brave woman. And she is my guest once more on Q&A, here. Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8. The Assads, father and son, ruled Syria for about 55 years: from 1970 ...

Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself as a ... He ensured that when he left, only hatred would remain." Posters in honour of HTS were put up all over Tartous, Syria, on January 10 ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile ... bullet casings, boots, defaced Assad posters. On an airstrip, the hangars stood empty, but some still contained crates ...