A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Rounding a traffic circle, he struck a barricade, and the car flipped several times. Bassel al-Assad was 31. There is a story told, not confirmed, but believable. I will tell it, as long as the ...

He staffed the military high command with fellow Alawites, in a majority Sunni country. Bassel al-Assad was being groomed to be his successor until a deadly 1994 car crash. The death of the ...

Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf visited Damascus two weeks ago, leading a senior American delegation—the first to set foot in Syria since the civil war broke out in 2011. During her ...

Under Assad, Syria was under heavy economic sanctions and mired in seemingly endless crisi — LOUAI BESHARA When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria ... the interim government's Economy Minister Bassel Abdel ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 24 — When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept ... will be free and competitive,” the ...

Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...

THE mom of a missing US journalist abducted by Assad’s savage regime has discovered a chilling clue about her son in a Syrian ...

“I will fight until the end to get Bassel’s remains,” she said ... Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and its militias have cut off the Kurdish city of Kobane from the rest ...

The ex-media chief said: "Bashar al-Assad’s request to Putin was for ... with his elder son Bassel groomed to take over the role. Bashar was working as an ophthalmologist at Western Eye Hospital ...

When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef ... free and competitive," the interim government's Economy Minister Bassel Abdel Hanan told reporters. He said the new authorities would ...