Two Republican congressmen were expected to meet the country’s new leaders and to visit areas destroyed during the long civil ...

Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the ...

Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and ...

When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over his vast empire of ...