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 ...