Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...

Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of ...

The Assad family's long rule over Syria seems to be at an end. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has reportedly fled Damascus, signalling the end of his rule after more than a decade of brutal ...

(SANA/AFP/Getty Images) Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where Russia has granted them political asylum, a source in the Kremlin told the state news agency TASS.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Muammar Al-Ali knew at once that the bearded man filmed after being freed by Syrian rebels from a prison in Hama when the city fell to them this week was his brother, Ali, who ...

The Russian agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source on Assad and his family ... al-Sharaa, and not his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Assad had made Syria ...