Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in ...

A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...

Fellow trainer Salah al-Ahmad, 52, was beaming as his son took the mare Topsy for a spin -- once ridden by Sham al-Assad. "He used to dream of touching her or patting her head," Ahmad said.

For weeks, Ziad Abu al-Dahab has been training for gold at an equestrian tournament near Damascus -- in a sport once dominated by Syria's Assad family and their inner circle.

For decades, former president Bashar al-Assad, his relatives and allies enjoyed wide-ranging privileges before his overthrow in a lightning Islamist-led offensive in December. Equestrian sports surged ...

In Aleppo, a statue of one of Mr. al-Assad’s brothers, Bassel al-Assad, on a horse was toppled. The horse remained.

When Hafez al-Assad died in June 2000, posters of the patriarch and his two eldest sons – Bassel the heir apparent, who died prematurely in a car accident in 1994, and Bashar the successor by ...

A family photograph in an album found in Bashar al-Assad's Damascus residence, on December 11, 2024. In the center, his parents, on the right, his brother Bassel. LAURENCE GEAI / MYOP FOR LE MONDE ...

Bassel al-Assad was 31. There is a story told, not confirmed, but believable. I will tell it, as long as the reader understands that it is a tale, not fact (however credible the tale).