Six months after Ahmad al-Sharaa led the ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad he was shaking hands with Donald Trump, who would go on to describe him as a “young, attractive guy”. The ...

A bashful Bashar might blush at this. Jihadi rebels invading President Bashar al-Assad’s palace in Aleppo last week came across a photo of the Syrian leader as a young man, sporting nothing but ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his final sign-off Monday to lifting longstanding US sanctions on Syria after pledging to ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

Bashar al-Assad fled Syria after 13 years of brutal civil war, bringing an end to the Assad family’s decades-long grip on the country.

As a young man, al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, said Warrick. "Right after the invasion of Iraq, he fought for them. He said he was a foot soldier," Warrick said.

Syrians vanished during Bashar al-Assad's rule. Since his fall, ... Nicole Young, Kristin Steve, Aaron Weisz. Alex Ortiz, Ian Flickinger. December 15, 2024 / 7:59 PM EST / CBS News ...

Abu Oweis had dropped out of high school, he said, and joined Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist rebel group that led the assault that ousted Mr. al-Assad. Now 20, the young rebel had never left ...

Off to the side, a young man stomped at the singed copies of a tome entitled “The speech on tenets and the national decision by President Bashar Al-Assad,” which bore a portrait of the former ...