Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the younger brother of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and widely known as the “butcher of Hama,” has died at the age of 88. According to a Reuters report, Assad died in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Israeli army soldier holds a portrait of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by a vehicle near the Druze village of Majdal ...

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa unveiled on Monday new banknotes replacing those showing ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and his family, hoping the Syrian pound can regain some of the value lost to over a ...

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by By Erika Solomon Christiaan Triebert Haley Willis ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...

Iranian General Qassem Soleimani warned Syrian officials that Luna al-Shibl, a close adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, was a spy months before she died in a suspected assassination disguised as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia ...

Syrians marked the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war.

A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of dictatorship and civil war. But challenges remain for the new leadership. Syrians in Damascus, Syria, on Monday gather for a ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the U.S. on Saturday for ahead of his landmark meeting with President Trump, his country's state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him ...