Syrian courts have opened war crimes investigations against four senior officials from the former Assad regime, in the most ...

A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing during more than ...

By bna Cairo bureau Syria's newly established National Authority for the Missing has warned that the number of people who ...

President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by militants and rebels. Members of Jaish al ...

The Assad government forcefully disappeared at least 3,700 children whose parents were disloyal to the regime. The figures ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) -- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

Bashar al-Assad has been the president of Syria since 2000, following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. Early Life And Education ...

Bashar al-Assad came to power in 2000 after his father’s death and spent the better part of 14 years fighting the civil war.

CNN — (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 - Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in ...

Bashar al-Assad, center, is seen during the closing session of the ruling Baath party congress in Damascus, Syria, in June 2000. (SANA/AP/File via CNN Newsource) ...

(CNN) — Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning ...