While Mr Al Assad lived in a luxury private residence in Al Malki district, a short distance from Al Muhajireen palace, his father preferred the Al Rawda Palace in Abu Rummaneh, also a short ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

For half a century, Lebanon lived under the long rule of the two Assads in Syria. Damascus held Lebanon’s fate in its hands, ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Hafiz al-Assad, son of deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, has posted a video on Telegram in which he confirms that the ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

The people of Damascus are trying to move on, but many remain in the midst of the ruins, and rebuilding remains a distant ...

Ayman Oghanna for NPR An HTS fighter seen inside the Assad family villa outside Latakia. Ayman Oghanna for NPR “The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad,” it reads in Arabic.

QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.