View the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Fast Facts on CNN and learn more information about al-Assad ... 2012 - Assad meets twice with UN envoy Kofi Annan to discuss the bloodshed in Syria ...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between ...

Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Sednaya ...

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 ...

Bashar al-Assad does not want to let a calamity go to waste ... The un reckons that as many as 5m Syrians have been left homeless. Helping them will be a monumental task.

Bashar al-Assad just gassed his own people, then bombed the clinic treating victims A poison gas attack in Syria has killed at least 74 — including 16 women and 23 children — and wounded over 350.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to allow United Nations aid deliveries to opposition-held northwest Syria through two border crossings from Turkey for three months, UN Secretary ...

Another brother, Maher al-Assad, born 1968, is now commander of the Republican Guard and is known to be much more brutal than Bashar. He is described as moody, cruel and intellectually sharp (CNN ...

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has survived seven years of a devastating war and intense international pressure to step aside. While Saturday’s US-led air strikes on Syrian government ...

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 ...

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 ...