Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

Born on September 11, 1965, in Damascus,Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad. For over a decade, the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria seemed to have weathered the storm of a brutal ...

As China hosted the 19th Asian Games in September last year, President Xi Jinping welcomed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a picturesque lakeside guesthouse in the eastern city of Hangzhou.

My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” according to a statement ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

Ms. Erhaim is a Syrian journalist working as a media and gender consultant in the Middle East and North Africa. What is life without Bashar al-Assad? Michel Kilo, the Syrian intellectual and ...

Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad's luxurious home on Sunday after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country ...

Nor would Bashar al-Assad’s Presidential Guard, a special unit of the Syrian Army designated to protect the leader and his palaces, allow access to such a property. While this is not one of al ...

Bashar Al-Assad vowed to defeat the insurgents by force, the official Syrian news agency reported on Sunday. The Syrian army said dozens of its soldiers had been killed in the attack on Aleppo.

Syria's brutal civil war rekindled suddenly after 13 years, with rebels staging a shock offensive that forced long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad to flee to Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the end of President Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria. Scholz said on Sunday that al-Assad had brutally oppressed his people and had countless deaths on ...

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...