New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Bashar Al-Assad: From Doctor To Dictator, How Assad's Two Decades Of Rule Plunged Syria Into Chaos From a young man, on his way to become an eye doctor, who was not supposed ...

Dr. Wael Khouli, a physician practicing in Escanaba, was born and grew up under the Assad regime. He says these first protests were monumental as no one had previously dared to speak out for change.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh told border agents her respect for Hassan Nasrallah is spiritual, not political. But the two are ...

Instead, Assad, the second son of former Syrian ruler Hafez Assad, planned to be an ophthalmologist. He studied in Syria and then London before his career as an eye doctor was cut short by his ...

How Syria's 'Geeky' President Assad Went From Doctor to Dictator. As world powers sit down aiming to end the war in Syria Friday, a key figure won’t be present — "geeky" President Bashar Assad.

After nearly 14 years of devastating war, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end, with rebel forces taking control of the capital Damascus. The 24-year rule of Assad ...

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar ...

"When you have a doctor to cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene, you don't call him a butcher; you call him a doctor, and you thank him for saving lives," Assad said. "When you ...