The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit and wandering around the rooms — which are empty after being looted.

Upon Assad's return to Syria Saqr says that Putin did not pick up any of Assad's calls between Tuesday and Thursday before his eventual fall from power. He says that the former Syrian president ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...