Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household ...

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its ...

Ms. al-Assad’s cousin and Maher’s daughter, Sham al-Assad, also appeared to celebrate her 22nd birthday with an extravaganza, ...

Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...

Damascus, Syria – On the morning of December 5, 2025, a taxi drove me across the Lebanon-Syria border. This time was different from my first trip across, in the early hours of December 9, 2024, just a ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians flooded the streets of Damascus on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse. The celebrations came a year after former Syrian dictator Bashar al ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that intelligence files recovered in Damascus after Assad’s fall reveal how Syria’s secret ...

Syrians marked the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war.

One year after leading the insurgent charge that swiftly ended generations of Baathist rule, Syrian Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is claiming victories on an even more unlikely front. Sharaa's ...

Taken together, China’s approach to post-Assad Syria is defined less by opportunity than by caution. Beijing is neither ...