The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as the sway of Iran diminishes.

Amid renewed relations with Libya, Russia is relying on the Al-Khadim base near Benghazi to strengthen its military presence ...

About seven months ago, a group of 25 Syrian youths, including minors, set off from Libya on an irregular migration journey ...

The reports began trickling in barely 24 hours after Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad was ousted. “Several Assad regime officials arrive in Libya’s Benghazi,” read a headline on a local ...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, ...

The ex-dictator of Syria, Bashar Assad, is lucky that, unlike fellow deposed tyrants, he didn’t end up dead at the end of a rope like Saddam Hussein of Iraq or dead at the end of a sewer pipe… ...

It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in the course of which 500,000 people are thought to have been killed ...

Few will mourn Bashar al-Assad’s rule. ... Libya, and Yemen. Assad’s ouster and similar dynamics in some regional countries may soon claim scalps of other long-term dictators.

Bashar al-Assad’s downfall evokes memories of uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, each of which brought civil war or authoritarian rule. Syrians hope for better.

Vogue magazine published a profile on Asma al-Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ... Libya, Yemen, and Syria by storm. Around the same time in 2011, ...

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...