Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Kassis, 59, is a Lebanon-based drug trafficker who used his connections in Syria to traffic both cocaine and weapons. He ...

Assad, a cousin of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, began on Wednesday at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, marking ...

The French president landed in Damascus on Monday evening. He's the first EU leader to visit the country since Bashar Assad's ...

El presidente francés Emmanuel Macron llegó a Siria el lunes, convirtiéndose en el primer líder occidental importante en ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — France’s highest court is ruling Friday on whether it can strip the head of state immunity of Bashar Assad, the former leader of Syria now in exile in Russia, because of the brutality ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. What's New The Kremlin has denied reports that Bashar al-Assad's wife ...

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 ...

Bashar al-Assad is the former president of Syria who held power for decades before his government was overthrown during a rebel offensive. Assad fled to Moscow and was granted political asylum after ...