CNN cannot confirm whether Assad was on this flight. Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024.

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al-Assad. It was 2007 and the insurgency against US troops was raging next ...

Biden administration officials, watching the remarkable speed of the Syrian rebel advance, increasingly see the possibility of the regime of Bashar al-Assad falling within days, five US officials ...

At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns ...

The purported discovery, which CNN cannot confirm, was made at a branch of Air Force Intelligence, an arm of the Assad regime previously alleged to have been involved in the production and ...

Putin’s pledges of support for Assad a decade ago now seem empty. But it may still be early to write off Putin as a rival negotiator and potential adversary, despite the ouster of his client.

The red, white, green and black Free Syrian Army flag flew over Damascus on Sunday as thousands of residents lined the main square in bursts of defiant jubilation – after President Bashar al ...

CNN is “investigating” claims that a Syrian prisoner freed in a dramatic viral moment captured by the network’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward is, in fact, a notorious Assad ...

Fatima Baghdadi told CNN she had come to the square to see the moment for herself. The 80-year-old has lived most of her adult life under the regime. One of her sons was killed in the war and her ...

An anti-government fighter tears down a portrait of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after jihadists and their allies entered the northern Syrian city, on November 30, 2024.