While Syrians died under rubble, endured torture in prisons, lived in camps, Bashar Assad along with his family were living ...

What Syria’s risky new moment means for Syrians, leaders in the region, Turkey, Israel, and America COMMENT | STEVEN A. COOK ...

Syrian equestrian champion Adnan Kassar was arrested at the Equestrian Club in rural Damascus on charges of possessing a milit ...

On January 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving too fast on the way to the airport ...

Read the original article here. On Jan. 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving too ...

Can Syria forge a path out of chaos without the need for an extreme ideology to hold it together? “Chaos,” wrote Albert Camus ...

The Assad family in an undated photograph, with Hafez Al-Assad and his wife seated in the front row, and, from left to right: Maher, Bashar, Basil, Majid, and Bushra Al-Assad in the back row. Via ...

Young men, some of them rebel fighters, on a giant statue on Wednesday in Aleppo, Syria, that previously depicted Basil al-Assad, former President Bashar al-Assad’s late brother, riding a horse.

Hafez al-Assad nurtured his eldest son Basil, as his successor, but in 1994, Basil was killed in a car crash in Damascus. Soon after Basil's death, Bashar was brought home from his ophthalmology ...

Originally an eye doctor studying in London, al-Assad was never meant to become president. He was called back to Syria after the death of his older brother, Basil. In order for Bashar to assume ...

After then president Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, mourners carried posters of him and his two sons: Basil (left), who died in a car crash in 1994, and Bashar (centre), who succeeded him.Credit ...