In a speech from the White House on ... leave the presidential post and left the country, giving instructions to transfer power peacefully." Assad agreed to give up power as the result of ...

The Assad regime began in 1970 with Bashar's father Hafez. With an insidious intelligence service, routine imprisonment and torture of dissidents and iron-fist control of media and public speech ...

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 ...

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed ... a new state,” al-Sharaa said in a speech marking the formation of the ...