Bashar al-Assad's sudden overthrow in December 2024 transformed the balance of power across the Middle East. This documentary examines how Israel weakened Iran's regional military network, seized ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has retreated into a secluded life in Moscow after losing power and is no longer of interest to his longtime backer Vladimir Putin, The Guardian reported Monday ...

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 ...

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Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death in Syria. But the man now at the centre of the country's attempt to reckon with the former regime is not in a Syrian courtroom, he is in Moscow, under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Russia's President Vladimir Putin speak during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, ...

(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.

Bashar al-Assad apparently wanted to cover his tracks while fleeing to Moscow. Flight data points to the possible route of the ousted dictator.

Statements from both the White House and the Kremlin say the two leaders had a conversation that included easing Syria's civil war, North Korea and fighting militants throughout the Middle East.