Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

A Syrian court held its first hearing on Sunday in the trial of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and senior officials from ...

Syria has opened its first public trial of officials linked to former President Bashar Assad. Atef Najib, a former army ...

The court’s summonses for Bashar and Maher Assad added symbolic weight to a proceeding targeting figures once considered ...

Bashar Assad was not expected to succeed his father. He had been trained in England as an ophthalmologist and was married to a stylish investment banker. His charismatic older brother Bassel was the ...

Bashar al-Assad, the man who killed 202,000 civilians including 23,000 children, gassed 1,400 people to death in a single attack, and ran a torture network so sadistic that prisoners were kept in ...

December 8, 2025 • Syria is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty's repressive 50-year reign came to an end following 14 years of civil war that left the country battered and divided.

The ability of the U.S. to punish the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for allegedly launching chlorine weapons attacks may be limited despite “damning evidence,” a U.S. official said.