Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. Personal Birth date: September 11, 1965 Birth place: Damascus, Syria Father: Hafez Assad, late Syrian ...

A Syrian security source and Syria's state-owned Al-Ikhbariya said the target was killed as he tried to escape, as US ...

A U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria killed a senior Islamic State member, a potential ISIS leader. Conducted in Idlib ...

By bna Cairo bureau Syria's newly established National Authority for the Missing has warned that the number of people who ...

A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing during more than ...

A group of bipartisan lawmakers met with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, part of a growing group in Congress ...

Syrian courts have opened war crimes investigations against four senior officials from the former Assad regime, in the most ...

Western governments estimate that Captagon has generated billions of euros in revenue for former Syrian President Bashar ...

The Assad government forcefully disappeared at least 3,700 children whose parents were disloyal to the regime. The figures ...

The Assad family's rule was among the most brutal in the region and its prison system, including feared sites such as ...

New Islamist rulers are trying to destroy the drug empire that financed the former regime in Damascus. Can they succeed?

“Stars in Broad Daylight,” with a domineering character who strongly resembles Hafez al-Assad, had one official showing in Damascus. Now it’s been restored. By Ben Kenigsberg Jan. 10, 2025 ...