Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...

A post shared on Facebook claims that deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is returning to ophthalmology in Russia. Verdict: ...

Documents circulating on social media claiming Syria's former first lady Asma al-Assad was a spy for British intelligence ...

Here's what to know as Syrian rebels say Bashar al-Assad has fled Russia gave the Assads asylum ... vacation in Syria and then got to know him better while he was studying ophthalmology in England. In ...

Asma and Bashar al-Assad met during her childhood holidays ... deepened when Bashar moved to London in 1992 to train as an ophthalmologist at the Western Eye Hospital. The couple married in ...

TYRANT Assad’s desperate final plea to Putin and his nerve-racking wait to be smuggled into Russia have been revealed. The ...

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a ...

One user wrote, “Dr. Assad will return to ophthalmology after being deposed as president of Syria and plans to set up an eye clinic in Russia.” There is no evidence for this claim. If he was ...