How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in ...

While the Assads lived in luxury ... was a city built on a marble rock and a square of aquamarine in every house," he said, referring to the trappings of wealth enjoyed by Assad's family.

FeatureIn the villa and presidential palaces left behind by the fleeing al-Assads, Damascenes were able ... I wanted to see the house," said the 60-year-old Syrian woman, her short hair dyed ...

No matter that this led to the emergence of the so-called Islamic State in eastern Syria with its harvest of blood and horror, a secession of Kurds (who then got attacked by Turkey) and the ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the international search getting underway: ・Plan B: "They had a lot of time before the revolution to wash their money," says former White House official Andrew ...

But such a blanket amnesty would be unacceptable to many in a country where hundreds of thousands have been killed, imprisoned and tortured under the Assads ... Image The house that belonged ...

How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt – who came ...

While the Assads lived in luxury ... was a city built on a marble rock and a square of aquamarine in every house,” he said, referring to the trappings of wealth enjoyed by Assad’s family.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. After 54 years, the brutal Assad regime has fallen to almost unanimous rejoicing. But any attempt ...