Assad’s Fall in Syria Sheds New Light on Human Rights Abuses The fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has set free activists and dissidents held in the country's notorious prisons.

Assad has gone," 39-year-old Ahmed, who preferred not to give his last name, told AFP. "All Syrians are together now," said the railway technician, who fled the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in 2015.

Assad must go. Three short words — one protracted policy debate. Back in the summer of 2011, those words, or their equivalent, became known among makers of U.S. Middle East policy as “the ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more ...

Assad claimed in the statement Monday that he had no intention of fleeing Syria for Russia and that he wanted to keep ...

Assad oversaw Syria's slide into brutal civil war in 2011. His security forces sought to crush a mass protest movement demanding democratic reforms as the Arab Spring buffeted the region.

Assad is close to victory in the civil war, and so criminals will probably be safe in Syria under his iron fist. Still, Rapp has hope. "I'm an optimistic American.

Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father, ruled Syria starting in 1970. Bashar al-Assad took over in 2000, and continued to run Syria as a brutal police state.

Assad’s exit stood in stark contrast to his first months as Syria’s unlikely president in 2000, when many hoped he would be a young reformer after three decades of his father’s iron grip.

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

Assad's army, hollowed out by corruption, simply ran away. The dictator fled to Moscow. We found nearly all you need to know about Assad's rule in examination room two at Damascus Hospital.