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Bashar Al Assad

Latest news and stories about the ousted Syrian president who is now exiled in Moscow

A UN chemical weapons expert with a bag containing chemical elements. Reuters

From Syria to Sudan: How to hunt for chemical weapons evidence

MENASeptember 16, 2026
Sudan Armed Forces leader Gen Abdel Fattah Al Burhan. His army has been accused of manufacturing and using illegal chlorine bombs. Reuters

Chemical weapons experts demand Sudan 'chlorine attack' inquiry

MENASeptember 10, 2026
Two Syrian artists paint a remainder of a wall of a collapsed building in Al Milan village of Idlib city in Syria. EPA
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Another wall comes down for Syria

EditorialAugust 26, 2026
Kurds displaced during Syria's civil war make their way to their hometown of Ras Al Ain earlier this month. Reuters

Syria-Israel talks are a step in the right direction

EditorialAugust 25, 2026
Waseem Al Assad was sentenced to death by a court in Damascus on Tuesday. Photo: Sana

Syrian court sentences former president's cousin Waseem Al Assad to death

NewsAugust 18, 2026
Destroyed buildings line a street in the Syrian town of Al Zabadani in rural Damascus on August 12, 2026. Photo: Ahmad Fallaha / The National
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A Syrian town's battle to rebuild after Hezbollah's scorched-earth campaign

MENAAugust 16, 2026
A portrait of former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad who has been sentenced to death. AFP

The death sentence against Bashar Al Assad is a bittersweet pill for Syrians to swallow

CommentAugust 13, 2026
The National

Shadi's take on a death sentence for Syria's former president

CartoonAugust 12, 2026
Syria has sentenced Bashar Al Assad to death in absentia for mass murder
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Damascus court sentences Bashar Al Assad and eight others to death

MENAAugust 11, 2026
Ed Miliband, Britain's new Foreign Secretary, opposed military action against Syria in 2013 when he was Labour leader. Getty Images

How Ed Miliband's Syria legacy could haunt the new Foreign Secretary role

MENAJuly 21, 2026
A burnt-out van at the site of a bomb blast in Damascus on Tuesday. Getty Images

Syria suspects Assad loyalists behind Damascus bombings

MENAJuly 09, 2026
The Syrian parliament building in Damascus. AFP

Syrian authorities postpone opening of new parliament

MENAJuly 05, 2026
The Al Abbasi family was arrested by Bashar Al Assad's intelligence services in 2013. Photo: Sana

Revealed: Assad regime 'killed six children' of dissident Syrian chess champion

MENAMay 31, 2026
Adnan Abboud Halawa, a brigadier general in Syria's Assad regime, is pictured after his arrest. Photo: Syrian Interior Ministry

Syria detains Assad-era general over sarin gas attack

MENAApril 30, 2026
Amjad Youssef after his arrest. Syrian Interior Ministry / EPA

Main suspect in Assad-era Tadamon massacre arrested

MENAApril 24, 2026
Getty / The National

Solving Syria's Kurdish question remains a work in progress

CommentFebruary 13, 2026
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