Bashar al-Assad rose to power in 2000 following the death of his father, who had ruled Syria for 30 years. Initially trained as an eye doctor in London, Bashar was not groomed to lead. According ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.

Originally from Ghouta, a Damascus suburb bombed with chemical weapons in 2013, photographer Abdulmonam Eassa fled Syria ...

Cyclist Bassel Soufi visits the summer resort of ousted Bashar al-Assad as he tours a part of ... "I can't believe my eyes. They've built something that we didn't see anything like it in all ...

Vladimir Putin (right) and Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow in 2015 ... according to the Middle East Eye. The former Syrian aide said that Assad had visited Moscow before his regime's ...

Bashar al-Assad, the exiled Syrian leader currently under the protection of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reportedly survived a poisoning attempt in Moscow, according to a Thursday night ...