Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

During Assad’s rule, official autopsies of prisoners ... “He understood that the arc of history is long,” his grandson said.

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on their revolutionary history ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

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.

The former Hawaii congresswoman isn’t just unqualified to be director of national intelligence, she’s a political opportunist ...

Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President ...

But hours after rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, swept into the Syrian capital Damascus in early December, ...

But in recent weeks, her vulnerability has grown amid escalating concerns over her 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and her history of praising a controversial government whistleblower.

After a coalition of rebels toppled the Assad regime, the interim government they have set up in Damascus has moved quickly ...