A new leader chosen after the fall of Assad The Assad family's 54-year rule in Syria came to an end in early December when ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

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.

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of reform, the brutal suppression of dissent during the Damascus Spring, and his ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...