Syrians are now visiting the seaside villa of the ousted President Bashir al-Assad. The compound had been off-limits since it was built for the Assad family 50 years ago.

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria following a lightning rebel offensive in November has shaken Assad-ally ...

In the backyard, boys and men chopped down trees to cart away for firewood ... in the home where she lived with her family opposite the homes of the Assad family in Qardahah.

Syria witnessed a swift revolution that ended five decades of Assad family rule. Rebels and the ... burning of an Alawite shrine and a Christmas tree have stoked tensions, leading to protests ...

The Assad regime ruled Syria for more than 50 years under Assad and his father Hafez - see the family tree below. This marked the conclusion of a regime notorious for its brutality, including ...

(AP Photo/Leo Correa) Meanwhile, a video of a Christmas tree ... Assad pulled out of Syria following the total collapse of the Syrian Arab Army and sacking of Damascus on Dec. 8. The ruling family ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are ...

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It was unclear why the tree was burned, and who was behind it ... the Alawite sect have also been attacked. Members of the Assad family are Alawites, and those in the sect were historically ...

The Assad regime ruled Syria for more than 50 years under Assad and his father Hafez - see the family tree below. Assad’s rule over Syria ended in dramatic fashion after rebel forces stormed ...