Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

Damascus, Syria — A few days after insurgents in Syria overthrew President Bashar Assad, his ruling Baath party announced it ...

Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, locking up those who ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody ...

Assad’s critically ill wife will not be allowed to return to the UK for cancer treatment after her British passport expired, ...

Assad’s father brutally crushed an uprising in Hama, creating a blueprint for repression. Decades later, Syrians can now ...

Assad’s relatives have been arrested at Beirut airport with forged passports, while his uncle, who is wanted for war crimes, ...

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...

Asma al-Assad grew up in Acton, west London and, after attending a private girls' school, graduated from King's College ...

"Perhaps Islamic rule will come … and the regime will become totalitarian again," SDC adviser Riad Darar told Newsweek.