In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Bashar Assad. Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party.

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

Unidentified individuals broke into the mausoleum of former Syrian president Hafez Assad — father of Bashar Assad — in the city of Qardaha in the northwestern part of the country and removed ...

In an Assad torture prison, I saw my father’s ... As I drove through the scorched countryside toward Aleppo — the first major city to fall in the final days of Bashar al-Assad’s regime — I ...