Bashar al-Assad rose to power in 2000 following the death of his father, who had ruled Syria for 30 years. Initially trained as an eye doctor in London, Bashar was not groomed to lead. According ...

Bashar Assad never intended to go into politics. He became one of the world's most brutal dictators, whose thuggish rule ended abruptly when rebels stormed into Damascus Saturday night, causing ...

Subsequently, he worked as a military doctor at a military hospital in Damascus. After spending some time in Damascus as a medical graduate, Bashar al-Assad embarked on a journey to London in 1992. He ...

New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Bashar Al-Assad: From Doctor To Dictator, How Assad's Two Decades Of Rule Plunged Syria Into Chaos From a young man, on his way to become an eye doctor, who was not supposed ...

It’s a safe bet that Bashar al-Assad will be judged by future historians to be among a handful of the most monstrous and murderous of 21st-century dictators. Yet it’s not impossible that had ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. The Assad regime was notorious for its extreme cruelty and routine use of torture and state ...

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During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces under former President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most horrific chemical attacks in recent history. One of them was in April 2018, on the ...

Bashar al-Assad led the Syria with an iron fist and ... his past and rise to dictatorship was unexpected. He was an eye doctor in London when a family tragedy put him on the path to leadership.