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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad. For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for ...

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 ...

In 2012, Barack Obama declared a "red line," warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt direct US intervention in Syria’s then-year-old civil war.

"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 ...