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.

Around 8 million people in Syria, almost a third of the country's population, were under observation by long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad's security forces before his fall from power last year ...

A man holds two pineapples at a stall selling fruits, many of which were not available while deposed president Bashar al-Assad was in power — LOUAI BESHARA After decades of poverty and isolation under ...

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 ...

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Abu Ayman said he “was always in favor of my neighborhood people.” In the months since President Bashar al-Assad’s fall, the unresolved tension between these two Sunni Muslim families has ...

In January, state media reported that intelligence officials in Syria’s post-Assad government thwarted a plan by IS to set off a bomb at a Shiite Muslim shrine south of Damascus. Al-Sharaa met ...

Trump’s lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria marks a push to bring the country back into the Western sphere of influence following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. and U.K. aim to revive ...

Jaish al-Islam was one of the main opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad's government before Islamist-led fighters toppled him in December. It has also been accused of terrorising civilians in ...

once a leader of a formerly al-Qaida-linked militant group. Since Assad’s fall, Israel has launched airstrikes, seized a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone inside Syria and threatened to invade to ...

Both nations are longtime Assad foes who quickly championed al-Sharaa and have been pushing the U.S. to normalize ties with Syria’s new government. Turkey, whose resources and land have been ...

officials told Egypt’s then-President Hosni Mubarak to step down and militarily ousted Libya’s then-leader Muammar Qaddafi while shying away from directly intervening against Bashar al-Assad.