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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

June 21 (Reuters) - Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday. Wassim al-Assad was sanctioned by the ...

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 ...