DAMASCUS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad released on Monday his first public statement since leaving Damascus on Dec. 8, detailing the chaotic moments leading up to his departure for Russia. The statement, released via the Syrian Presidency's Telegram account, addre...
Syria's government appears to have fallen afteropposition fighterssaid they had entered Damascus following a stunning advance, and a Syrian opposition war monitor reported that President Bashar al-Assad had left the country.Syrian opposition fighters said early Sunday local time that they had entered ...
DAMASCUS, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed Mohammad Ghazi Jalali as the country's new prime minister, state media reported on Saturday. Jalali, 55, a civil engineer and economist, has been tasked with forming a new cabinet, according to the presidential dec...
Anadolu Agency: I think it seems President Bashar al-Assad’s family’s rule in Syria alongside Baath Party’s 61-year-old rule has ended after a 13-year civil war in which tens of thousands of Syrians were killed and millions of them were displaced. What does China think about recent ...
Ousted Syrian PresidentBashar Assadfled to Moscow on Sunday, Russian media reported, hours after a stunning rebel advance took over the capital of Damascus and ended the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule. The Russian agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source on Assad and...
Syria's ousted President Bashar al Assad has arrived in Moscow, Russian state media has confirmed. Mr Assadand members of his family arrived in the Russian capital on Sunday, a Kremlin source told the TASS news agency. The source added: "Russia, for humani...
DAMASCUS, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has hailed China's supportive stance toward Syria and its role in solving critical regional issues, including the Iranian-Saudi reconciliation. Assad made the remarks during his meeting with the visiting China's special envoy on Midd...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad President Assad: You cannot measure it but you can tell that the majority of the people who suffered from ISIS, they are supporting the government and, of course, the rest of the Syrian people are afraid from ISIS and I don't think they would-- I think...
DAMASCUS, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with the chairman of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq, Falih al-Fayyadh, in the capital Damascus Monday to discuss strengthening cooperation in combating terrorism and border control, according to the state news agency...
Bashar al-Assad had been running a private medical practice. But when his brother died, his father summoned him from London, sent him to a military academy north of Damascus, and started preparing him for the reins of power—which he took when Hafez al-Assad died on June 10, 2000. Basha...