The New York Times

The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its atrocities during the Syrian civil war. Pictures of missing Syrians pasted on a ...
Wall Street Journal

Families, Neighbors Informed on Each Other in Assad’s Syria, With Deadly Consequences

DAMASCUS—The family of Abdu Kharouf, a moderate Muslim preacher in a dirt-poor section of Damascus, had been haunted for half a decade by questions of how exactly he ended up in a prison run by ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Defiant Assad Loyalists Attack Government Forces on Syrian Coast

At least three people were killed and 60 injured in Latakia, with Syria’s Interior Ministry blaming the violence along the country’s Mediterranean coastline on the remnants of Bashar al-Assad’s ...
The Diplomat

China’s Quiet Stake in Post-Assad Syria

In mid-November 2025, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in Beijing for his first official visit since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. A joint statement after the visit reaffirmed respect ...
The Boston Globe

King Philip girls’ hockey coach Ken Assad dies at age 60

Ken Assad, a state champion on the ice at Franklin High as a star player and later as an assistant coach, who steered the King Philip girls’ hockey program to its first Hockomock League title last ...
The New York Times

For Fallen Syrian Dictator Assad and Family, an Exile of Luxury and Impunity

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by By Erika Solomon Christiaan Triebert Haley Willis ...
The Sun Chronicle

Local hockey community remembers King Philip coach Ken Assad

WRENTHAM — The King Philip Regional High hockey community was in mourning on Monday, remembering the life and work of girls hockey head coach Ken Assad. Assad died on Sunday morning unexpectedly at ...
The Sun Chronicle

King Philip girls hockey coach Ken Assad dead at 60

King Philip Regional High girls hockey coach Ken Assad died unexpectedly on Sunday morning. He was 60 years old. Assad, who led the Warriors since 2019, oversaw the program’s first-ever Hockomock ...
Newsweek

Shunned by Putin, Syria’s Ex-Dictator Lives in Isolation

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...
Forbes

A Year After Assad’s Fall, Russia Preserves Syrian Energy Influence

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...
Wall Street Journal

The Hunt for Assad’s Brutal Enforcer

DAMASCUS, Syria—During 13 years of revolution and war, the Syrian dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad set a high water mark for cruelty in the 21st century, disappearing tens of thousands of ...