From the first protests against the tyrannical rule of former President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 to his flight into exile as rebel armies marched on Damascus earlier this week, the European ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

A barrage of post-mortem analyses have sought to investigate the stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, key details remain unreported, and misconceptions are beginning to ...

I mean, I'm thinking about the fact that he has always backed Bashar al-Assad, as you've just described, who jailed political opponents, who used sarin gas on civilians. Now he's given him asylum.

President Bashar al-Assad ruled his country with an iron fist for 24 years, as his father had done for 30 years before him. When he appeared to prevail in Syria’s civil war, it was widely ...

Inside Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s trashed private residence as rebel forces take control - ... The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking news brand, ...

Over the weekend, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia as opposition forces took over the capital of Damascus, ending an uprising that had begun in 2011 and killed hundreds of thousands ...

I was born in the mid-1980s under the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, our ousted president. I learned early that being a good citizen meant not thinking. If you did dare to ...

Bashar and his wife, Asma al-Assad, long exerted major influence over the wealth of Syria. “Bashar al-Assad is not known for flaunting his luxury lifestyle. … ...

The decades-long reign of Bashar al-Assad is officially over. ... I'm no longer part of this kind of thinking. In fact, I fought it. I was young, and, you know, I was driven to go and fight.

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...