Bashar Assad never intended to go into politics. He became one of the world's most brutal dictators, whose thuggish rule ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

Bashar al-Assad: From eye doctor to president Bashar al-Assad, 59, is the second son of former Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad, who held the reins of power for 30 years. After studying ophthalmology ...