End to 14-Year-Old Rule This dramatic fall marks the end of Bashar al-Assad’s nearly 14-year struggle to maintain power amid Syria’s brutal civil war, which began in 2011. His regime had faced ...

An anti-government fighter tears down a portrait of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo after rebels and their allies entered the northern Syrian city on November 30, 2024. (Photo by ...

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 rebel ...