In the words of Axios ‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on ...

His older brother, Bassel, was the one earmarked to succeed their father Hafez, who had seized power in a coup in 1971 to mark the beginning of half a century of Assad rule. Bassel, with his ...

A fighter affiliated with Syria's new administration carries the decapitated head of an equestrian statue of Bassel al-Assad, brother of toppled president Bashar al-Assad, removed from the abandoned ...

Rounding a traffic circle, he struck a barricade, and the car flipped several times. Bassel al-Assad was 31. There is a story told, not confirmed, but believable. I will tell it, as long as the ...

Syrians around the country on Sunday toppled and trampled on statues of President Bashar al-Assad's late father Hafez, who founded the brutal system of government that his son inherited.

He staffed the military high command with fellow Alawites, in a majority Sunni country. Bassel al-Assad was being groomed to be his successor until a deadly 1994 car crash. The death of the ...

On the grounds of the Guard complex a statue of the president's brother Bassel al-Assad, atop a horse, has been toppled and Bassel's head severed. Bassel al-Assad died in a 1994 road accident.