The government of new president Ahmed al-Sharaa is determined to recover public funds taken abroad in the run up to Assad's fall, a senior official told Reuters, to support Syria's economy as it ...

Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions against the nation’s new "terrorist" regime, which he warned is no better than his first cousin, ousted leader ...

Armed militants, believed to be Assad loyalists, ambushed General Security Service (GSS) forces, resulting in multiple fatalities. The attack began in the village of Jableh in Latakia governorate, ...

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...

Bashar al-Assad, the exiled Syrian leader currently under the protection of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reportedly survived a poisoning attempt in Moscow, according to a Thursday night ...

Rifaat al-Assad led forces that crushed Syrian revolt in 1982 Switzerland charged him with crimes against humanity BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader ...

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 ...

Languages: English. The Kremlin has denied reports that Bashar al-Assad's wife has filed for divorce after being exiled to Moscow alongside her husband. The initial reports, which came from ...

From the first Ba'athist coup, in 1963, Syria became a totalitarian one-party state. Hafez al-Assad's government "deployed unrestrained violence", said Middle East politics expert Sefa Secen in Time.