Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded intelligence and security services appear to have ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

Syrias President Bashar al-Assad (C) ... the country’s parliament lowered the age requirement to become president from 40 to 34, ... Many in Lebanon accused Bashar of being behind the murder.

Bullet-riddled portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in city of Hama as rebels advanced this week OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images. ... Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.

Under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, Lebanese Christians endured significant suffering. Lebanese Christians celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on Dec. 8, 2024. (photo: Jean Bou Assi) ...

Rasha Khazem, the wife of Duraid Assad — the son of former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Assad, the uncle of Bashar Assad — and their daughter, Shams, were smuggled illegally into Lebanon and ...

Syrian refugees living in Lebanon grapple with whether to return home now that Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship has fallen. Many are hesitating. Something like 6 million Syrians face a decision. The ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says, "there was security." His brother, Abu Ali, admits the Assads, accused of killing tens of thousands of their own people, were not ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...