The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) recently announced Bashar al-Assad as its 2024 “Person of the Year,” an award highlighting the individual who has done the most to advance ...

We haven’t really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis,” one US-based investigator said ...

With the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the scale of his regime's mass killings and executions are coming to light more and more each day. The United Nations said this week the ...

The threat from Iran is greatly diminished, but Turkey poses new challenges.

Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia with his family after a rebel coalition swept into Damascus and ...

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Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

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 ...

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad planned to keep fighting rebel forces in the country before Russia evacuated him, according to a statement attributed to him released Monday. “My ...

Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was already out of the country, telling hardly anyone, five former officials told AFP.

Bashar al-Assad and wife Asma, in Paris in 2008 DOMINIQUE FAGET Bashar al-Assad's brutal rule over Syria came to a sudden end on December 8, 2024, after a lightning rebel offensive swept across ...