It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance ...

The funeral of Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad. His "departure" was much more stately and calm than his son’s retreat this past week. For some 30 years, he had ruled Syria with an ...

The humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, with the unloved dictator forced to flee as a baying Islamist mob overran the presidential palace in Damascus, was a ...

Bashar Al Assad is surrounded by Baath Party members a week after the death of his father. AJ Russian President Vladimir Putin receives Bashar Al Assad in Moscow in 2005.