Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad ...

Assad’s Fall in Syria Sheds New Light on Human Rights Abuses The fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has set free activists and dissidents held in the country's notorious prisons.

Assad has gone," 39-year-old Ahmed, who preferred not to give his last name, told AFP. "All Syrians are together now," said the railway technician, who fled the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in 2015.

Assad must go. Three short words — one protracted policy debate. Back in the summer of 2011, those words, or their equivalent, became known among makers of U.S. Middle East policy as “the ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more ...

Assad claimed in the statement Monday that he had no intention of fleeing Syria for Russia and that he wanted to keep ...

Assad oversaw Syria's slide into brutal civil war in 2011. His security forces sought to crush a mass protest movement demanding democratic reforms as the Arab Spring buffeted the region.

The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, as rebels seized control of the capital Damascus. Deposed President Bashar al-Assad was granted asylum by Russia, according to state-run Tass news.

Assad is close to victory in the civil war, and so criminals will probably be safe in Syria under his iron fist. Still, Rapp has hope. "I'm an optimistic American.

Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father, ruled Syria starting in 1970. Bashar al-Assad took over in 2000, and continued to run Syria as a brutal police state.