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 ...

1994 - Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident. Second son Bashar, is called back from medical training in Britain and is groomed to take over ...

As Syrians continue to search for traces of loved ones who were disappeared under Bashar al-Assad's regime, UN workers in the country have taken advantage of Assad's ouster to gather unprecedented ...

The United States announced on Monday that it was revoking the foreign terrorist organisation designation for Syria 's Hay'at ...

A week after a lightning rebel offensive toppled longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations special envoy for Syria on Sunday called for justice to prevail, not revenge. Syrians are only ...

After years of Assad’s siege tactics, the suburb’s population dwindled: eventually, before the attack, falling well below the 400,000 the UN had estimated late last year.

Bashar al-Assad just gassed his own people, then bombed the clinic treating victims A poison gas attack in Syria has killed at least 74 — including 16 women and 23 children — and wounded over 350.

Assad became the president of Syria in 2000, succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 until he died in 2000. For nearly 14 years, the country had been in a civil war, starting as ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is planning to visit Kim Jong Un for what could be the North Korean leader’s first summit meeting with a foreign head of state in his capital.

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 ...

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