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BASHAR ASSAD

A portrait of former Syrian President Bashar Assad is pictured with its frame broken, at a Political Security Branch facility on the outskirts of Hama following the capture of the area by anti-government forces on Dec. 7, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2026
Assad ruled Syria with iron fist before defeat in civil war
An international war crimes prosecutor accused the Assad-led state of having conducted organized killing ?comparable to Nazi Germany.
A member of the former rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stands guard near an image of Syria's Bashar Assad at the fourth division headquarters in Damascus on Jan. 23, 2025.
WORLD
Aug 12, 2026
Syria sentences Bashar Assad to death in absentia over atrocities
The ruling is the first of its kind under Syria¡¯s transitional leaders, who ousted Assad in 2024, vowing to provide justice and accountability for crimes committed under his rule.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, the day Russia celebrates the anniversary of the Soviet Union¡¯s victory over Nazi Germany in WWII.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2026
How Moscow lost friends and global influence
With even Russia¡¯s closest friends hedging their bets, the Kremlin¡¯s ability to project power and shape world affairs has been severely weakened.
Former head of political security in south Syria's Daraa province, Atif Najib attends the first trial session at the Palace of Justice, in Damascus on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2026
Syrian court begins proceedings against Assad and allies
Bashar Assad and his brother had fled Syria and will be tried in absentia.
Military personnel stand at the crossing connecting the two banks of the Euphrates River, as others attempt to cross to the other side after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from Deir al-Zor province and the Syrian army took full control over the area, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 19, 2026
Syria and Kurdish forces agree on sweeping integration to end clashes
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces had resisted integration into the Islamist-led government that has ruled Syria since the toppling of former President Bashar Assad.
The mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair in February
WORLD
Dec 29, 2025
Syria secures Assad-era mass grave and opens criminal investigation
The moves follow a report that revealed a yearslong conspiracy by the fallen dictatorship to hide thousands of bodies on the remote desert site.
A woman holds a sign in Arabic that reads "our martyrs are not numbers," during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 28.
WORLD
Dec 9, 2025
A year after Assad¡¯s fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers
As Syria marks a year since Bashar Assad¡¯s downfall, many people remain exhausted by the same burden that plagued them under his rule: the lack of closure.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa raises his hand during an event marking the first anniversary of former leader Bashar Assad's fall, in Damascus on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 9, 2025
Syria¡¯s al-Sharaa vows to promote coexistence one year after Assad¡¯s ousting
Al-Sharaa¡¯s Islamist-led alliance launched a lightning offensive last year that brought a sudden end to more than five decades of Assad family rule.
A man walks on a poster of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted the strongman, in downtown Damascus in December last year.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 8, 2025
¡®It¡¯s all over¡¯: How Iran abandoned Assad to his fate days before fall
During Syria¡¯s civil war, which erupted in 2011 following the government¡¯s brutal repression of pro-democracy protests, Iran was one of Damascus¡¯ biggest backers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) shakes hands with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2025
Syrian leader seeks reset in Russia relations in Putin meeting
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa was expected to push for Moscow to extradite Bashar Assad, who fled there after being toppled.
A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair on Feb. 27
WORLD
Oct 15, 2025
Assad government secretly moved bodies from mass grave to cover up killings
The bodies were moved to cover up the Assad government¡¯s crimes and help restore its image, witnesses with direct knowledge of the two-year effort said.
The Nagoya High Court overturned a lower court decision that obliged the government to recognize a Syrian man as a refugee.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2025
Court rules government not obliged to recognize Syrian man as refugee
The court overturned a lower court decision that obliged the government to recognize a Syrian man as a refugee.
Fidaa al-Eissa hangs a rug to dry on the rooftop of her home, surrounded by the wreckage left by the civil war, in the Qaboun neighborhood of Damascus on Feb. 21.
WORLD
Jun 30, 2025
¡®She¡¯s not coming back¡¯: Alawite women snatched from streets of Syria
The overthrow of Bashar Assad in December after 14 years of civil war unleashed a furious backlash against the Muslim minority community to which he belongs.
An Israeli Druze woman looks over the border between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria on May 4.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2025
Israel¡¯s Syria policy could fuel more conflict and disorder
Israeli policy, part of a decades-old strategy of undermining Sunni power, risks paving the way for the emergence of a formidable new threat.
Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against an insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria, on March 7.
WORLD
Mar 17, 2025
¡®Pray for us. They¡¯ve arrived¡¯: How Syria descended into revenge bloodshed
Just three months after Bashar Assad¡¯s ouster, parts of western Syria descended into vengeful bloodletting.
A woman reacts next to one of the pictures of victims of a recent wave of sectarian violence targeting Syria's Alawite minority in the west of the country along the Mediterranean sea coast, during a protest condemning the attacks in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 12, 2025
Syria determined to ¡®prevent unlawful revenge,¡¯ says fact-finding committee
The latest violence has marked the gravest threat to Syria¡¯s new authorities, calling into question their ability to govern.
Syrian army personnel gather as they head toward Latakia to join the fight against the fighters linked to Syria's ousted leader Bashar Assad, in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday.
WORLD
Mar 10, 2025
Syrian leader scrambles to contain deadliest violence in years
Clashes that a war monitoring group said had already killed over 1,000 people in Syria continued for a fourth day.
A soldier stands guard at a roundabout in Latakia, Syria, on Sunday. Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa called for national unity and peace after more than 1,000 people were reportedly killed in clashes in coastal regions of the country.
WORLD
Mar 9, 2025
Syria¡¯s new leader calls for peace as communal clashes continue
More than 1,000 people had been killed in the two days of fighting in the Mediterranean coastal region in some of the worst violence for years in a 13-year-old civil conflict.
A Russian military vehicle heads toward Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria, on Dec. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 3, 2025
Russia gambles to keep military bases in post-Assad Syria
Syria¡¯s interim president wants to renegotiate the 49-year lease for one base and an indefinite lease for the other to secure better terms.
A member of the former rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stands guard near an image of Assad at the fourth division headquarters in Damascus on Jan. 23.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2025
Digital discord: Online disinformation sows discontent in Syria
There are fears online disinformation is derailing the transition of power after Sunni Islamist rebels defeated Assad in December.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
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Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
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She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

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