According to the Financial Times, Assad has acquired apartments in two 300m-high, 78-storey towers. The report refers to 22 ultra-luxurious apartments with saunas, Jacuzzis and marble decorations.

Bashar al-Assad Assumes Presidency Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of ...

Asma al-Assad, the London-born wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, has reportedly sought divorce, reportedly expressing “dissatisfaction” with the couple's life in Moscow.

the first since Bashar al-Assad's fall. Jawdat al-Qais fought back tears as he knelt at the tomb of his father, who died less than a month ago. "His wish was to be buried in Jobar -- and Jobar was ...

From wanted jihadist to statesman embraced by world leaders, Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has undergone a stunning transformation in just six months since ousting longtime strongman ...

marking the first time a strike has been launched toward Israel from Syrian territory since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December. Syrian state media reported that Israel ...

An easy-to-produce amphetamine-based drug, captagon provided an economic lifeline to the former Bashar al Assad regime in Syria. The industry generated billions of dollars for Damascus and fell ...

In early 2011, as Arab leaders were being toppled by grass-roots protests, a group of teenage boys in the southern city of Daraa spray-painted a school wall with a taunt to Bashar al-Assad ...

Most of the U.S. sanctions on Syria were imposed during the previous government of Bashar al-Assad, who carried out serious abuses against civilians including the use of chemical weapons ...

But their ties warmed significantly after Bashar Assad was ... which has been suspicious of al-Sharaa, once a leader of a formerly al-Qaida-linked militant group. Since Assad’s fall, Israel ...