Bashar al-Assad

Inside Assad’s Ransacked Palace: Anxiety Pills, Graffiti and Shredded Posters

A Wall Street Journal reporter in Damascus tours the dictator’s former home, office and underground bunker

Iran Suffers Blow of ‘Historic Proportions’ With Assad’s Fall

Tehran loses a pillar of its national-security strategy as it prepares for more confrontation with Trump

Syrians Search Notorious Prison for Thousands of Missing

The Assad regime’s downfall has given hope to families of Syrians who disappeared in recent decades

U.S. Scrambles to Shape Post-Assad Syria But Has to Overcome Years of Disengagement

If Syria falls under control of Islamist militants it could bring further disorder to an inflamed region

Bashar al-Assad, an Ophthalmologist Who Became a Dictator, Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty

Once a self-styled modernizer, Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad bought time with a harsh crackdown, but his government eventually succumbed to its many enemies

Assad’s Rule Collapses in Syria, Raising Concerns of a Vacuum

Outside powers maneuver for influence as a regime that controlled the divided country for half a century melts away