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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bulent Kuş hopes the Sunni Muslims won’t harm the Alawites now they are in control of Syria - Bradley Secker In the Turkish ...

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, marking the end of more than 50 years of the Assad dynasty (1971 – 2024), is a dramatic event in the Middle East. It is difficult to make definite short- and ...

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Islamist militia supported by the United States and Turkey seized Damascus, the capital of Syria on Sunday, after Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Russia. US-backed opposition fighters ...

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 ...

(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.

The French Cour de Cassation, on Friday, annulled an arrest warrant against the former president of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, holding that sitting foreign leaders are immune from prosecution. On the ...

Russia is providing sanctuary to Bashar al-Assad, having transported the former Syrian leader there “in the most secure way possible” after the swift collapse of his regime, Russia’s deputy foreign ...

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk ...