Assad transformed into one of the world’s most brutal autocrats. From chemical weapons attacks to Russian military backing, ...

Bashar Assad never intended to go into politics. He became one of the world's most brutal dictators, whose thuggish rule ended abruptly when rebels stormed into Damascus Saturday night, causing ...

“The country is on its way to being finished.” A soft-spoken eye doctor, Assad was an unlikely ruler who was thrust into the ...

Syrian doctors have established themselves in Germany, filling critical health-care gaps. But Assad’s fall and anti-migrant ...

The doctor was imprisoned soon after finishing ... Like many of those fellow refugees, the return to his homeland would be at Assad’s fall five years later. Abdullah was finally able to use ...

giving the impression that Assad had been planning to be in power for a long time. Back in his own palace, a room was set up as a doctor’s surgery and another for a barber — complete with the ...

Exposing their cruelty may actually bolster their power for a while, by reminding their subjects of the dangers of ...

It was in London that she got to know Bashar al-Assad, who had moved to the British capital in 1992 to train as an eye doctor. Two years later, his elder brother died in a car crash and he became ...

We wrote on the school wall, ‘Your turn next, Doctor (Assad).’ A few days later the police saw what we’d written and rounded up the boys in the neighbourhood.” Mouawiya’s three ...

The bloodshed in the coastal heartland of former ruler Bashar al-Assad saw more than 800 people killed in clashes between ...

Türkiye’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun says documentary is ‘a call to humanity’s conscience, a stance against the ...