More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. "Now he's gone, many are ...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...

personal belongings of the Assad family remain scattered across the mansion. Photographs of Bashar’s late brother, Basil al-Assad, who died in a 1994 car accident, as well as children’s ...

Advertisement Assad came to power in 2000 by a twist of fate. His father had been cultivating Bashar’s oldest brother, Basil ... His wife, Asma al-Akhras, whom he married several months after ...

ALEPPO, Syria — The many monuments of the Assad regime that once dotted the ... they brought down the regime,” said her husband, Basil al-Hassan. Their first stop had been to the 13th-century ...

When Syria’s new ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa, talks about building ... Over time it was assumed that Assad’s eldest son, Basil, a career military officer and tough daredevil, would succeed him.

The economy was severely harmed by the Assad dictatorship ... Syria into the international economy, according to Basil Al-Hamwi, president of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce.