The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

Very quickly after Assad and his family fled Syria when the autocratic ruler was toppled ... (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) “The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad,” it reads in Arabic. Mohamed ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him ... it was a secret. Only my family knew," said ...

Madhan, a Syrian military police defector, risked his life 11 years ago to provide the first official evidence of torture on ...

We were poor and they would have arrested my family,” he said ... stole food meant for soldiers! His salary was only $25, but he had no choice.” Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself ...

Syria's United Nations ambassador, Bashar ... at a post-Assad Syria slip at precisely the moment when al-Sharaa, who has been mentioned as a possible transitional leader, gave his interview ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing ... of the former regime have taken refuge. Assad and his family fled to Russia when rebels swept across ...

Five years earlier, Shahin had shepherded his family out of their native Syria as the country was engulfed in violent conflict between rebel groups and brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad. They’d ...

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 ...

Very quickly after Assad and his family fled Syria when the autocratic ... "The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad," it reads in Arabic. Mohamed Ismail, 25, is among the Syrians touring ...