There were even Alawite victims, from the same religious group that the Assad family belongs to. Some of the dead bore a tattoo of the president on their breast as a symbol of their loyalty.

10 February 2025 — Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria during the Assad family’s rule, which stretches back to the early 1970s. A UN body set up to discover their whereabouts ...

This marks the first time in over half a century that a member of the Assad family will not rule Syria. Assad served as president since 2000 after taking over from his father, who ruled Syria for ...

Assad's journey brought to an end his family's dynastic rule stretching back to 1971, and signalled the start of a life in exile. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

For the first time in over 50 years, Syrians are observing the holy month of Ramadan without the Assad family in power. In a powerful and deeply human story, reporter Rizik Alabi brings readers into ...

Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where Russia has granted them political asylum, a source in the Kremlin told the state news agency TASS. Assad was in Damascus on Saturday and fled ...

“I’m afraid. I’m afraid for my family.” Reconciliation centers, like this one at Latakia, are so former conscripts of the Assad regime can sever any previous ties they had. Latakia's Alawite minority ...

Insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, overthrew President Bashar Assad’s secular government in early December ending the 54-year Assad family dynasty. Since then ...