Bashar al-Assad is the former president of Syria who held power for decades before his government was overthrown during a rebel offensive. Assad fled to Moscow and was granted political asylum after ...

Former air officers, including an air force general, were arrested in a series of operations.

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Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sentenced to death by a Damascus court on Tuesday, after being found guilty on charges of murder, torture and incitement to murder. His brother Maher ...

The court also sentenced Assad-era official Atif Najib to death for "crimes against humanity" committed when he was head of ...

A Syrian criminal court in Damascus has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after finding him guilty of killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and crimes against humanity ...

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The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

Major-General Mohammed Ali Durgham is accused of links to 1982 Hama massacre and 2011 protest crackdown. Syrian authorities ...

'Syria after Assad' (2/4). Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime one year ago, more than 1.2 million exiled Syrians have returned home. The journey back has often been extremely ...

As Syria celebrates one year since the fall of the Assad regime, reports continue to provide details about the lives of the Assads. A new report at Al-Arabiya notes, “The ousted Syrian president, ...