In the 1980s under Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez ... Ham Mihan, a newspaper from the reformist camp, described the Assad government as an "authoritarian and repressive regime" on its front ...

Residents in the remote Rukban camp in Syria's isolated southern safe ... which is under siege by President Bashar Al Assad's regime. Syrian rebel forces on Thursday entered the central city ...

Zaatari refugee camp, located in northern Jordan ... Syria and 7.2 million people are living in shelters. Bashar al-Assad: From eye doctor to president Bashar al-Assad, 59, is the second son ...