In post-Assad Syria, stand-up comedians are re-emerging to challenge ... "The regime has fallen," he declares from the stage, referring to Bashar al-Assad's abrupt departure earlier this month, ending more than half a century of his family's rule.

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one million pills of captagon, whose industrial-scale production flourished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

The fall of President Bashar Al Assad's government in Syria is said to have an impact on countries in the world, one of which is Indonesia.

After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more compassionate hands. After all, his heir, Bashar al-Assad, was a doctor trained in ophthalmology in London — the birthplace of the Spice Girls! How bad could he be?

A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries.

Israel is celebrating the fall of Assad because it breaks the noose that Iran had been patiently tightening around Israel’s borders in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Tehran’s pincer is now broken and rendered useless. From the point of view of Israel’s wider conflict with the Islamic Republic, the collapse of Assad’s regime is a strategic victory.

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad planned to keep fighting rebel forces in the country before Russia evacuated him, according to a statement attributed to him released Monday. “My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the ...

Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad said, in a statement attributed to him on Monday, that he did not plan to leave the country amid rebel advances towards Damascus but that Russia had evacuated him.

“#Urgent What if he came back apologizing #Syria #Bashar_al-Assad This talk is not true and is for entertainment purposes only. It was created via artificial intelligence,” the caption reads. Additionally, Misbar referenced a Dec. 5 Al Jazeera article ...

In his first public comments since fleeing Syria and being evacuated to Russia, former leader Bashar al-Assad says his departure was unplanned.View on euronews