Bashar Assad, right, and his brother Maher Assad, center, stand during the funeral of their father, former President Hafez Assad, in Damascus, Syria, June 13, 2000. (AP Photo, File) Maj. Gen. Ali ...

Drones attacked military bases in Iraq overnight, including some housing U.S. troops, the Iraqi army and a US military ...

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says, "there was security." His brother, Abu Ali, admits the Assads, accused of killing tens of thousands of their own people, were not ...

Claim: The video depicts the execution of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s cousin Suleiman Hilal al-Assad in public following the fall of his regime. Fact: The claim is false. The video ...

Hopeful Syrians look toward a future without Bashar al-Assad | 60 Minutes 13:32. An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was ...

In a former police station in Latakia, Syria, the past and the present collide. Once controlled by the Assad regime, the compound is now run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — the group that spearheaded ...

As President Donald Trump considers launching an attack on Iran, Tehran has warned of swift retaliation. If the United States ...

Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images. The collapse of Assad's government ended a 24-year reign, the president having succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000.

A barrage of post-mortem analyses have sought to investigate the stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, key ...

One of them, 19-year-old Zakaria al-Hiji from the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, said he had disliked Assad’s rule but liked what he had seen so far of the new authorities.

President Bashar Al-Assad, Syria’s ruler for 24 years — succeeding his father, ... and Samar Ali, Research Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University, ...