View the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Fast Facts on CNN and learn more information about al-Assad and Syria. ... Germany and Italy issue a joint statement calling it a “fraudulent election. ...

Nearly a million Syrians in Germany alone have made new lives. But after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, some politicians across the continent have suggested that refugees could return home.

T he fallout of Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in Syria is raising concerns in Germany, where the health sector could be upended if the thousands of Syrian doctors working there decided to return home.

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, April 6. One of Assad's relatives is reported to be living in Germany. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, April 6. One of Assad's relatives is reported to be ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance ...

S yrian rebels took control of the capital, Damascus, and seized President Bashar al-Assad's extensive palaces after the 59-year-old autocratic leader fled the war-torn country. He arrived in ...

A man burns a picture of Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting al-Assad and ending more than half a century ...

In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapse, Germany has been gripped by heated political debates over whether Syrian refugees should be encouraged to return voluntarily or face ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say was ...

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 ...