The huge toppled statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the Damascus countryside town of Deir Atiyam in Qalamoun ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

People celebrate, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, at Majdal Anjar in Bekaa, ...

A Syrian youth group has sparked outrage after painting over the walls of a former security dungeon, "erasing evidence" of ...

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

The 1982 Hama assault is often described as the model for Bashar al-Assad's later crackdown on the rebellion that began in 2011 and toppled him this month. When rebels seized Hama on Dec. 6 ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one ...

Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a ...

The wife of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has reportedly filed for divorce and is now begging to leave Russia after the two fled from Syria. Asma al-Assad, who along with Bashar has been ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that Bashar al-Assad's wife has filed for divorce after being exiled to Moscow alongside her husband. The initial reports, which came from Turkish and Arab sources ...

How did Bashar al-Assad come to power? Bashar was Hafez's second son. Gawky and cerebral, he trained in London as an ophthalmologist in the 1990s, and married a British Syrian woman, Asma.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival: The regime presented itself as the only ...