Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate attack on ...

French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate attack on ...

The timeline, which has not been previously reported, said that Gabbard and Bashar al-Assad met at 12:15 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2017, and that her next appointment was with Assad’s wife at 3 p.m ...

SHOCKING pictures have revealed Bashar al-Assad's trove of luxury vehicles worth millions of dollars in the fallen dictator's Presidential Palace in Damascus. The high-end collection features a ...

People gather at Saadallah al-Jabiri Square as they celebrate, after Syria's army command notified officers on Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year authoritarian rule has ended, a Syrian ...

Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria - January 14, 2025 The huge toppled statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the Damascus countryside town of Deir Atiyam in Qalamoun remains a symbol of ...

His crime? Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had just been defenestrated after 42 years in power, and Farzat had published a cartoon in a local publication depicting then Syria president Bashar ...

Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s father, who ruled the country from 1971 to 2000, founded his reign on Baathist socialist ideology. He helped expand agriculture by subsidizing the ever-growing ...

From our special correspondent in Syria – A month after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed, Syria's Alawite minority, which served as the regime's backbone, fears a witch hunt. In their ...

On the day Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as his army collapsed, there was the briefest of celebrations at the organization that had spent the previous 12 years collecting evidence of the regime’s ...