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

While the Assads lived in luxury, most Qardaha residents — many, like Assad, members of the Alawite minority sect — survived ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

The Syria Team The fall of the authoritarian government of Bashar Assad in Syria to rebel fighters came swiftly and ...

Follow the latest on Syria In many places, Aleppo feels alive two weeks after it was overrun by Syria's now-victorious rebels ...

On the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus, NBC News got a look at former President Bashar al-Assad's palaces.

Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell. Now ...

Ibn al-Nafees hospital, in northern Damascus, now has the difficult task of caring for the broken men freed from the Assad ...

Secret escape tunnels used by the Assad family have been discovered after the bloodthirsty regime was toppled by Syrian rebel ...

The picture had been hand-signed by both royals and dated 2002 - though it appeared to have been pulled out of a box ...

HRW’s Mohamed Osman and Laetitia Bader, have just returned from the town of Renk in South Sudan, near the border with Sudan.

FOOTAGE allegedly shows the inside of the Assad family’s secret underground tunnel network – exposed after the bloodthirsty ...