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 ...

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 ...

But in a shocking turn of events, it was Bashar al-Assad himself who had to pack up and flee under the cover of darkness last weekend, leaving the fate of the country and its people, including ...

Damascus — In a remote corner outside Damascus, Syria, a now abandoned potato chip factory reveals one of the many dark but open secrets of the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad. A CBS News team ...

ALEPPO, Syria — The many monuments of the Assad regime that once dotted the ... they brought down the regime,” said her husband, Basil al-Hassan. Their first stop had been to the 13th-century ...