Assad, Asma Akhras enjoyed a privileged childhood in a terraced house in Acton, west London. The daughter of a cardiologist ...

Assad, our nation’s “father,” wasn’t born of loyalty; it was a survival tactic, rooted in generational terror that he was ...

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a ...

Bashar al-Assad is the refugee now ... “I’m thinking about how I can go back and see my childhood house. I can meet my extended family. I can see the land I grew up in, the place where ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Rebel fighters and civilians strolled through the grounds of Bashar al-Assad’s presidential ... a map of northeastern Syria, a biography of himself. Strips of benzodiazepine ...

People dismantled other symbols of Bashar al-Assad and his father ... with a degree in electrical engineering, according to a biography posted on the HTS government website.

I spent my childhood summers being driven from Lebanon ... After all, his heir, Bashar al-Assad, was a doctor trained in ophthalmology in London — the birthplace of the Spice Girls!

Before she was the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma Akhras enjoyed a privileged childhood in a terraced house in Acton, west London. The daughter of a cardiologist and a diplomat in the Syrian ...