Assad’s now-abandoned Presidential Palace, known as the “The People’s Palace” is located on Mount Mezzeh in western Damascus, near Mount Qasioun and the Mezzeh neighborhood — one of the ...

With ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family in Russia, his presidential palace is vacant and people are taking selfies and making off with the furniture.

Videos show fighters and civilians entering sprawling New Shaab Palace and combing through rooms and grounds Syrians have stormed Bashar al-Assad’s abandoned presidential palace in Damascus ...