Inside, doors opened with a hefty sweep into a cavernous, marble-lined dining room with ... that Assad had been planning to be in power for a long time. Back in his own palace, a room was set ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Rebel fighters and civilians strolled through the grounds of Bashar al-Assad’s presidential ... cuboid halls. The palace has at least two rooms for cabinet meetings: one ...

Flowers wilted in a vase in the dining room, and cups and plates had been left to dry by the sink. A framed photo of a smiling Hassan and Assad hung ... to search for them inside Syria.

"We found a vast network of tunnels which lead to the presidential palace" on a neighbouring hill, Salim said. During Assad's rule ... two bunkers containing vast rooms reserved for its soldiers.

We crunched over the blackened, burnt-out floor of the prison's basement complex, passing through offices, archive rooms ... Listen: Inside the fall of Assad Another document in the binder ...

Al-Assad fled the country amid the collapse of his government following a swift 12-day offensive by a coalition of rebel forces, including the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).