Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The lavish lifestyle and taste of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are on display in a video that shows the abandoned garage of the presidential palace in Damascus filled with luxury cars.

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.

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 ...