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 ...

Several photos of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - some of them even semi-naked - have gone viral, offering a stark contrast for a family that once ruled over a country with an iron fist.

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.