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 ...

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist.

Syrian refugees living in Lebanon grapple with whether to return home now that Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship has fallen. Many are hesitating.

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma started as a couple that could have broken the country's tyrant regime, though the opposite happened.

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 ...

Under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, Lebanese Christians endured significant suffering.

The liberation of Syria from the clutches of President Bashar al-Assad, after his family ruled the country for 50 years, is an unqualified good.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car ...

Syrian rebels took to the airwaves on state Syrian TV on Sunday morning local time to announce they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad, after their shock seizure of the country’s capital of ...

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.

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist.