Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household ...

Assad's exile in Russia is a life of secluded luxury and political irrelevance, where he is wealthy and secure but silenced ...

Assad's post-presidency looks less like a bunker and more like a gated compound outside Moscow. The ousted Syrian leader is even revisiting the medical career he once shelved for politics, reports the ...

Reem al-Kari and her cousin Lama are searching through dozens of photos of children spread out on a desk. Lama thinks she spots one with a likeness to Karim, Reem's missing son. Karim was ...

The wives of two United Nations envoys have created a YouTube video calling on Syria's first lady, Asma Assad, to "stop your husband" — President Bashar Assad — in his crackdown on a popular uprising ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident.

Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa touched down Wednesday in Moscow, the same city in which the dictator he overthrew now lives in protected luxury. Sharaa was in Russia to meet with President Vladimir ...

One of the young female aides in his presidential office even referred to Assad as "the Dude," a familiarity inconceivable with his father, according to a trove of emails purportedly leaked from ...