The 60-year-old, who was president of Syria for 24 years until 2024 before fleeing to Moscow, was found guilty of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest.

Bashar al-Assad is the former president of Syria who held power for decades before his government was overthrown during a rebel offensive. Assad fled to Moscow and was granted political asylum after ...

Syria's former ruler Bashar al-Assad has reportedly been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, with his brother receiving the same sentence. Assad was also charged with war crimes in ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa has requested Russia to hand over former president Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia after being toppled by insurgents in December, a Syrian source told ...

The ISIS attack on Paris may nudge the West to press for greater cooperation with Russia in Syria. Indeed, although the meeting between presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on the margins of the ...

If Ed Miliband wants to atone for his sins of 2013, there is an obvious place to start - Leon Neal/PA Wire For millions of Syrians, and for the relatively small band of us who tried to help them ...

Hmeimim airbase and Tartus naval base will become joint training and capacity-building centres under the agreement.

Ukraine’s president accuses Russia of a ‘cowardly and deliberate’ attack on a mall in his hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Japanese PM ...

(CNN) — The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Irony in its purest form.

Syria has been in talks on the fate of Khmeimim and Tartous bases, which Russia used to support ousted Assad regime.

'Syria after Assad' (2/4). Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime one year ago, more than 1.2 million exiled Syrians have returned home. The journey back has often been extremely ...