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.

The palace kitchen which once catered for the Iraqi dictator is now bereft of food, its cupboards left bare, although water still runs from the taps. Outside, flowers and shrubs cover the palace ...

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.

Take the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, who ordered the construction of the truly megalomaniac Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest in the mid-1980s, for which an entire neighbourhood had ...

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.

The palace was a window into the last days of a dictator who for more than a decade used torture, bombings and chemical weapons in a long war to suppress a rebellion against him, which began ...

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.