Bashar Assad, the second-choice dictator who could never fill his father’s shoes. Story by Con Coughlin • 1w. T he humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, ...

It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in the course of which 500,000 people are thought to have been killed ...

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.

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 ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived 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 ...

Syria’s wildfires are the first major natural disaster since the country overthrew the al-Assad regime in December.

Moises Saman won two Pulitzer Prizes for photography in May. One was in the Feature Photography category for his coverage of Syria after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, which he undertook for ...