Bashar al-Assad rose to power in 2000 following the death of his father, who had ruled Syria for 30 years. Initially trained as an eye doctor in London, Bashar was not groomed to lead. According ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...

Bassel was the heir apparent to the Syrian presidency before his death in a car crash in 1994 led to his brother Bashar al Assad's return from London, where he worked as an eye doctor, to be ...