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 ...

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. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Julia Davis During the interview between Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Solovyov, irony seemingly died a ...

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 ...

Groups of Syrians strolled through the palaces of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday following his ouster, wandering from ...

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, ...

'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 ...