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

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 ...

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 ...

In 1994, the line of succession changed in what seemed a promising way. Basil al-Assad, the “hero” and Hafez al-Assad’s eldest son, died in a car wreck. He was replaced as heir apparent by ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Meanwhile, back in Syria, Basil drove sports cars and rose to the rank of colonel in an elite army unit. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad waves to people from outside the parliament building in ...