But he yielded to a request by Russia to evacuate after a ... for 24 years. Before that, his father, Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an ...

Iraq and Libya before Syria are now, no democracies and even too chaotic to speak of freedom and human rights, while life at its very subsistence is the existential realities of these countries ...

Seven million displaced people, half a million casualties of war, hunger and poverty — after 14 years of civil war, Syria is in ruins. The cost of rebuilding the country will be massive.

Now, barely three weeks after Assad took a plane to exile in Russia, the situation in Syria remains mostly unclear. Indeed, the only certainties that exist are these: Israeli forces are bombing ...

“Syria’s war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war ... establishing a brutal caliphate before it was beaten back by a US-led coalition. Now its members are largely in hiding.

Now that he's gone, Syria is looking toward its future. But before the country can plan what's to come, its people want the world to be reminded of what has taken place. In 2013, death in Syria ...

There were twenty coups before 1970, when Hafez al-Assad ... as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire after the last war between Israel and Syria. Israel also launched nearly five hundred air strikes ...