offers support for Syrian people as US hits ISIS strongholds in moment of ‘risk and uncertainty’ Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and family in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum: reports Gunmen ...

Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went to Russia, a key ally to the fallen regime, after fleeing his country following the collapse of the Assad government to the rebels, according to ...

President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by militants and rebels. Members of Jaish al ...

Rebel fighters take pot shots at a Bashar al-Assad poster in Hama - BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Image They might pursue other avenues first. The rebels could turn West, towards Russian military ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...

My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” according to a statement ...

Bashar Al-Assad vowed to defeat the insurgents by force, the official Syrian news agency reported on Sunday. The Syrian army said dozens of its soldiers had been killed in the attack on Aleppo.

President Bashar al-Assad had kept opposition forces at bay for a decade with help from Russia and Iran. But rebels struck at a moment of weakness for those countries. By Neil MacFarquhar The ...

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left office and departed the country after giving orders of a peaceful handover of power, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed. In a statement ...