Assad's former regime in Syria. As the investigation by Shane Bauer for the New York Times Magazine notes, the regime "disappeared" an estimated 100,000 people over the course of its 13-year civil war ...

What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling ...

The Syrian case is not the first time that SOS has received children who were forcibly disappeared. In El Salvador, in the 1980s, the U.S.-backed military attacked villages suspected of supporting a ...

Amidst the turmoil in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, security concerns in the Red Sea following attacks by ...

The 14 years under Assad’s authoritarian leadership has been brutal but now Syria is facing many other challenges, including ...

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future after rebels seized the capital, Damascus, and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was cruel to those he leaned on the most for support. (SOUNDBITE OF CAR HORN BEEPING) FADEL: That's evident as soon as you pull into the Mezzeh ...

Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s murderer-in-chief, has fled to Moscow. The people are celebrating, tearing down posters of Assad and statues of his equally vicious father, who founded the regime.

Basil al-Assad, who was already being groomed to control Syria, died in a car crash in 1994, paving the way for his younger brother Bashar to assume power when their father died.

1994 - Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident. Second son Bashar, is called back from medical training in Britain and is groomed to take over ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car ...

-- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is the center of attention in the aftermath of a United States airstrike against a Syrian air base where a chemical attack was initiated earlier this week.