As a result, in today’s post-Assad Syria, China faces complicated dilemmas. But depending on how developments unfold and how the West ultimately approaches the new powers that be in Damascus ...

Now, however, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has presented the U.S. with a similar opportunity. For years, Beijing has consistently sided with Bashar al-Assad in his brutal repression ...

The tunnels, seen by an AFP correspondent, are among secrets of president Bashar al-Assad’s rule exposed since rebels toppled him on December 8. “We entered this enormous barracks of the ...

But soon after the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, the military under President Bashar al-Assad closed the mountain to civilians. Suddenly, instead of families and friends shooting fireworks ...

Ahmad al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is Syria's new de facto leader since Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad was deposed by Syrian rebels led by al-Julani's organization ...

For the past several weeks, Maryam Kamalmaz has been relentlessly scouring social media and WhatsApp groups, searching for any news about the whereabouts of her father, who disappeared more than ...

Countless other inmates — both criminals and Assad opponents — simply vanished after being incarcerated there. In 2017, the U.S. State Department said the Assad regime was using a crematorium ...

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 ...

Countless other inmates — both criminals and Assad opponents — simply vanished after being incarcerated there. In 2017, the U.S. State Department said the Assad regime was using a crematorium ...

Several reports have suggested that ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad may have been poisoned in Moscow. According to these reports, he fell ill on Sunday afternoon. Assad has been under the ...

Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian president, is reportedly the victim of an alleged poisoning attempt while in Moscow. Sources indicate that Assad, who has been under the protection of Russian ...