On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a military complex, tasked with defending ...

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

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

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad ...

In the Mazzeh 86 neighborhood, west of the Syrian capital Damascus, the names of many shops, grocery stores, and public ...

Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.

Syria’s long-ruling Baath party has frozen its activities after insurgents overthrew President Bashar Assad weeks ago ...

Image: Former Syrian President Hafez al Assad, his wife Aniseh, sons Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd and daughter Bushra (standing, L-R). Pic: Sana/Reuters Mr Kassar said his treatment became even ...

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

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

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow ...

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