I spent my childhood summers being driven from Lebanon, where my maternal family lives, to Syria, home to my paternal side. The shift as we drove from one border to the next always felt like stepping ...

Orphaned politicians in Damascus, who had paid obeisance to one and only one leader for 30 years, had a little succession problem on their hands. The Syrian Constitution clearly stated that Syria's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia ...

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

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Bashar al-Assad is out of power after a brutal 24-year reign over Syria, and his many haters are rubbing it in his face. The Assad family ruled from 1970 with a policy of crushing public dissent and ...

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 ...

Syria's iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that ruled Syria for more than 50 years. His absence during a lightning-fast rebel offensive marks ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of this ...

Syria defies Russia in bid to keep Assad in power even as the two allies prepare an offensive to retake Aleppo. Putin Backs Assad, Says Russian Warplanes Could Redeploy to Syria in Hours Russian ...