A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

The family’s oldest son, Basil, was supposed to follow his father as ruler ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed ...

Very quickly after Assad and his family fled Syria when the autocratic ruler was toppled ... (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) “The ...

“Bashar al-Assad visits his aunt in her modest home ... He received President #Assad and his family today, walking on his feet. The Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic,” an English translat ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

And then there's black graffiti all over the walls, cursing Bashar al-Assad. Syrian friends and family are touring the ... AL-SHALCHI: "He kept his people living in poverty while he lived in ...

We were poor and they would have arrested my family,” he said ... stole food meant for soldiers! His salary was only $25, but he had no choice.” Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself ...

Five years earlier, Shahin had shepherded his family out of their native Syria as the country was engulfed in violent conflict between rebel groups and brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad. They’d ...

It’s been a month since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, ending more than five decades of his family’s rule in Syria and almost 14 years of civil war. Al-Assad escaped to Russia on December 8 ...

Vladimir Putin allegedly "stopped taking calls" from the former Syrian president, Bashar ... al-Sheikh, he discussed how he believed the Russian president may have "tricked" Assad during his ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...