Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more ...

Few will mourn Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Maybe Western politicians like Senator-turned-Secretary of State John Kerry, ... Turkey willing to support Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, ...

Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video ...

The humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, with the unloved dictator forced to flee as a baying Islamist mob overran the presidential palace in Damascus, was a ...

The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President ...

The Issue: A rebel group has forced out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The fall of Syria’s genocidal dictator Bashar al-Assad is truly an instance of opportunity meeting ...

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance ...