So is Syria’s largest commercial bank. The Syrian pound has lost 99% of its value since the start of the civil war in 2011.

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

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

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

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

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

Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two ...

I had previously questioned the depth of Tehran’s relationship with Bashar al-Assad, as he considered it his pillar of support. It saved him in 2014 but failed after ten years.

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

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

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

Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, left the country via Beirut airport around a week ago, after rebels overthrew his nephew.