Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went to Russia, a key ally to the fallen regime, after fleeing his country following the collapse of the Assad government to the rebels, according to ...

President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by militants and rebels. Members of Jaish al ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

offers support for Syrian people as US hits ISIS strongholds in moment of ‘risk and uncertainty’ Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and family in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum: reports Gunmen ...

Rebel fighters take pot shots at a Bashar al-Assad poster in Hama - BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Image They might pursue other avenues first. The rebels could turn West, towards Russian military ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

The ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has said he did not plan to flee his country, claiming instead that his Russian allies decided to evacuate him from a base in western Syria when it came ...

Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum "out of humanitarian considerations", Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying. Russian state TV also ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...

President Bashar al-Assad had kept opposition forces at bay for a decade with help from Russia and Iran. But rebels struck at a moment of weakness for those countries. By Neil MacFarquhar The ...