A few minutes' drive away is the gate of the summer villa ... cursing the recently deposed ruler. "The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad," it reads in Arabic. Mohamed Ismail, 25 ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Ayman Oghanna for NPR “The palace of the serial killer ... villages cut firewood from the trees surrounding the former Assad summer villa outside Latakia.

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

One of those was the Assad summer home, with a private beach on ... (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) "The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad," it reads in Arabic. Mohamed Ismail, 25, is among ...

A few minutes' drive away is the gate of the summer villa ... An HTS fighter seen inside the Assad family villa outside Latakia. "The palace of the serial killer, Bashar al-Assad," it reads ...