ISTANBUL/DAMASCUS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition ... five decades of Assad family rule. The lightning advance relied on an almost perfect alignment of stars ...

In a statement from exile in Moscow, Assad claimed he did not want to leave Syria but was evacuated by Russia after he left Damascus for his family's heartland near the coast. Special ...

This area is dominated by people from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites controlled power in the ...

To most people who read or otherwise consume western media, the fall of the Assad government in Syria was unusually quick and even surprising. For most of this demographic, it seemed that Assad ...

At 13,000 pounds to the dollar (see chart 1), a quick trip to the market requires bags full of banknotes. Economic mismanagement was a defining feature of the Assad regime, which ruled Syria for ...