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 ...

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 ...

Syrian rebels have set on fire the tomb of the country’s former President Hafez al-Assad in his hometown in the northwest, a war monitor said on Wednesday. Assad ruled Syria for 30 years until ...

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.

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