When, aged 25, Amsa Akhras swapped pursuing an MBA at Harvard for marrying a meek-looking ex-ophthalmology student named ...

"Perhaps Islamic rule will come … and the regime will become totalitarian again," SDC adviser Riad Darar told Newsweek.

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Syrian leader Bashar Assad issued what appeared to be his first public statement since he was ousted and fled with his family ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

Asma al-Assad grew up in Acton, west London and, after attending a private girls' school, graduated from King's College ...

After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more ...

The scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to avert a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven ...

Asma al-Assad, wife of Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, has filed for divorce after fleeing to ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have ...

Syrian rebels set fire to the mausoleum containing the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad's ...

Pictures show that Hafez’s coffin might have been dragged out of the grave and set on fire. The mausoleum also houses the ...