Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has fled the country, according to his closest ally, Russia. The dramatic move brings a sudden end to half a century of rule by Assad and his family.

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 ...

The lavish lifestyle and taste of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are on display in a video that shows the abandoned garage of the presidential palace in Damascus filled with luxury cars.

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 ...

The nearly quarter-century rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad came to a stunning end, when he fled the country by plane for an unknown destination as rebel troops stormed into the capital ...

On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels stunned the world by seizing Damascus and toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, more than 13 years into the country’s brutal war. The offensive by the Islamist ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued his first statement since the dramatic fall of his regime last week, ...

He left Syria and joined al Qaeda in Iraq, only to return to his home country in 2011 during a revolt against Assad’s regime, eventually joining the side of al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2013.

Ms. Erhaim is a Syrian journalist working as a media and gender consultant in the Middle East and North Africa. What is life without Bashar al-Assad? Michel Kilo, the Syrian intellectual and ...