Damn his soul and that of the entire Asad family," said Ghazal al Sharif, another protester in central Damascus. "It is the prayer of all the oppressed, and God has answered it today." Some ...

President Bashar Assad has fled Syria on a plane after the government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of his family after a sudden rebel offensive ...

Russia claimed on Sunday that Syria's Bashar al-Assad, whose government was overthrown by rebels after nearly 14 years of a crippling civil war, had resigned from the presidency and left for an ...

reported that Assad had left the capital. It cited Qatar’s Al Jazeera news network for the information and did not elaborate. There was no immediate statement from the Syrian government.