At a news conference in Moscow, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared, “The final outcome in our view does not provide for a role for Assad or for the Assad family in the future governance ...

At a recent festival honoring Syria's pistachio production, officials made promises about returning pistachio lands to their ...

It was therefore a shock when this writer discovered Smile, General, a Syrian Ramadan TV series about a corrupt ruling family obviously closely modelled on the Assad family. Although initially ...

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Early in Syria's uprising, "a sharp diplomatic and economic shove might have convinced elements of the regime to give up on the Assad family," says Michael Gerson at The Washington Post.

Syria, under the authoritarian Assad family, has been Iran's closest Arab ally since the 1980s, when Bashar Assad's now-deceased father, Hafez, sided with Iran during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

He was reelected to the post in 2007. The Assad family has ruled Syria for over four decades. However, with the raging civil war in Syria that shows no sign of abating, Assad faces the most ...

NGM Maps Garman’s family had lived on the top floor ... were nailed to olive trees—a reminder of Assad’s hold on the area. Young men practiced parkour on the grass, cheering on each daring ...

If you go there I can tell you there was this apricot tree here ... home to share their experiences with family, friends and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Director Hany Abu-Assad, two of whose films have been Oscar ... who lost 48 members of his family on his mother’s side in an Israeli airstrike in November 2023.