The modern white building is surrounded by gardens of cacti, palm trees and all kinds of flowers ... Very quickly after Assad and his family fled Syria when the autocratic ruler was toppled ...

Following the toppling of Bashar Assad, Syria's Turkmen community hopes the new country's new rulers will heed their call to ...

his brother Maher Assad, and other family members, in the garage of Syria's Presidential Palace in Damascus. The showroom-like garage at Syria's Presidential Palace displays rare vehicles ...

HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, BYLINE: We drive through the grounds of the Assad family's summer home. It's surrounded with olive groves and lush orange trees. But I also see something unexpected.

who comes from a family of 11 siblings, said their survival depended on the land. “They also threatened my father, but he resisted.” Eventually, the Assad regime demolished their olive trees ...