What Syria’s risky new moment means for Syrians, leaders in the region, Turkey, Israel, and America COMMENT | STEVEN A. COOK ...

On January 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving too fast on the way to the airport ...

Syrian mothers desperately searching for any trace of their sons in Bashar al-Assad's dungeons.

Read the original article here. On Jan. 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving too ...

Can Syria forge a path out of chaos without the need for an extreme ideology to hold it together? “Chaos,” wrote Albert Camus ...

The Assad family in an undated photograph, with Hafez Al-Assad and his wife seated in the front row, and, from left to right: Maher, Bashar, Basil, Majid, and Bushra Al-Assad in the back row. Via ...

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military ...

Young men, some of them rebel fighters, on a giant statue on Wednesday in Aleppo, Syria, that previously depicted Basil al-Assad, former President Bashar al-Assad’s late brother, riding a horse.

Hafez al-Assad nurtured his eldest son Basil, as his successor, but in 1994, Basil was killed in a car crash in Damascus. Soon after Basil's death, Bashar was brought home from his ophthalmology ...

Originally an eye doctor studying in London, al-Assad was never meant to become president. He was called back to Syria after the death of his older brother, Basil. In order for Bashar to assume ...

Born in 1965 as the second son of Hafez al-Assad, Syria’s long-serving president, Bashar pursued a career in medicine and trained as an ophthalmologist in London. His elder brother, Basil ...