AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar ... black flag of the Syrian opposition chanted for Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the Islamist leader who had masterminded the rebels’ offensive that brought down Mr ...

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

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

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 ...

And if you look hard enough, black and white stone ablaq features ... Syrians are quite literally picking up the pieces now that Bashar al-Assad and his government have been removed.

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an unannounced trip to Syria in 2017 where she met with the now-deposed dictator ...

(Ayman Oghanna for NPR) An HTS fighter stands beside the hot tub of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Assad family villa outside Latakia. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) The modern white ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations ... arrived last Tuesday in a caravan of white SUVs for a summit in Damascus and ...

From our special correspondent in Syria – A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed ... On his face, a black eye. On his back, large bruises. Ali*, a young man in his early twenties ...