Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more ...

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime and the rise of a new political order in Syria led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Muslim Brotherhood has adopted a notably calm and pragmatic political tone.

The elder Assad became infamous for his 1982 crackdown against a Muslim Brotherhood-led uprising during which he massacred tens of thousands of people in the town of Hama.

The humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, with the unloved dictator forced to flee as a baying Islamist mob overran the presidential palace in Damascus, was a ...

Few will mourn Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Maybe Western politicians like Senator-turned-Secretary of State John Kerry, ... Turkey willing to support Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, ...

The Issue: A rebel group has forced out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The fall of Syria’s genocidal dictator Bashar al-Assad is truly an instance of opportunity meeting ...

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 lighting rebel advance ...

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 lighting rebel advance ...