PALACES once ruled by feared African dictators have been left crumbling for decades after the tyrants were brutally overthrown. Piled high with flashy diamonds, littered with porn and stacked with … ...

Days after Syria's longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was driven from power and the country, NBC News' Richard Engel got an inside look at the palace where Assad lived in luxury.

A Wall Street Journal reporter in Damascus tours the dictator’s former home, office and underground bunker. ... Inside Assad’s Ransacked Palace: Anxiety Pills, Graffiti and Shredded Posters.

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A defaced portrait of Mr. al-Assad inside the presidential palace. By contrast, Abu Oweis, our rebel guide, had been born in Idlib in Syria’s northwest, one of the country’s poorest provinces.

PALACES once ruled by feared African dictators have been left crumbling for decades after the tyrants were brutally overthrown. Piled high with flashy diamonds, littered with porn and stacked with … ...

Days after Syria's longtime president, Bashar al-Assad, was driven from power and the country, NBC News' Richard Engel got an inside look at the palace where Assad lived in luxury.

Inside Saddam's ornate palaces. By Richard Edwards Stunning: Saddam's Basra Palace. Fifty-six windows on its facade, 18 giant rooms, 12 balconies, eight ... (Monday) swept through the buildings and ...

Days after Syria's longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was driven from power and the country, NBC News' Richard Engel got an inside look at the palace where Assad lived in luxury.