Bashar Assad, right, and his brother Maher Assad, center, stand during the funeral of their father, former President Hafez Assad, in Damascus, Syria, June 13, 2000. (AP Photo, File) Maj. Gen. Ali ...

President Bashar Al-Assad, Syria’s ruler for 24 years — succeeding his father, ... and Samar Ali, Research Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University, ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says, "there was security." His brother, Abu Ali, admits the Assads, accused of killing tens of thousands of their own people, were not ...

Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period ... ruled for 29 years (from 1957 to 1986). In Gabon, Omar Bongo and then his son Ali ruled for 56 ...

Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images. The collapse of Assad's government ended a 24-year reign, the president having succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000.

In a former police station in Latakia, Syria, the past and the present collide. Once controlled by the Assad regime, the compound is now run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — the group that spearheaded ...