Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

Assad's repressive regime in Syria, troves of secret government intelligence files were discovered. They reveal a vast system of citizens spying and informing on each other.

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

As in Venezuela, North Korea, and Russia, deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s regime was such a case, characterized by centralized control, suppression of dissent, and a reliance on a powerful ...

Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, has won the first ever Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year bestowed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The award ...