The Muhajireen presidential palace in central Damascus ... the looting that took place in December 2024 as the end of Bashar Al Assad's regime loomed. Located in the eponymous neighbourhood ...

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.

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

FILE - Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan minister of state for ...

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

Al-Sharaa, the former rebel leader who headed the insurgents who toppled President Bashar Assad in December ... entrance of the vast presidential palace complex. Turkey was a strong backer of groups ...

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.

Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad have named Islamist Ahmad al-Sharaa as interim president, aiming to ...