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, ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...