Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

News about Bashar al-Assad, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Once seen as a modernizer, Bashar al-Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video traces his ascent to power ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar al-Assad has made a remarkable return to regional diplomacy. Once ...

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new Syria is rising from the disastrous legacy of the toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad. His photos have been torn from the walls, as people ...

Syrian authorities arrested Wassim Al Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar Al Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ...

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent ...

A former senior Syrian security official has told the FBI that American freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in 2013 on the orders of President Bashar al-Assad, an account that has not been ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for supporting crimes against humanity ...