"When you have a doctor to cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene, you don't call him a butcher; you call him a doctor, and you thank him for saving lives," Assad said. "When you ...

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent.

The doctor had been practicing medicine in Germany since ... People walk past posters depicting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, ahead of the May 26 presidential election in the district ...

A German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad during the country's brutal civil war. The higher regional court in Frankfurt ...

Syrian doctor, 36, known as M. by German media sits with his head covered, accompanied by one of his lawyers Ulrich Endres, as he goes on trial in Frankfurt, Germany, January 19, 2022.

Assad was still living in London in January 1994 when he learned his older brother Basel had died suddenly in a car crash. Bashar Assad was recalled to Damascus to take his place in the succession.

In this exchange with Global Voices after his latest trip to now besieged and rebel-held Eastern Aleppo, Dr. Sahloul appeals to the “doctor within” Assad. Dr. Sahloul recently gave a talk at the ...

Instead, Assad, the second son of former Syrian ruler Hafez Assad, planned to be an ophthalmologist. He studied in Syria and then London before his career as an eye doctor was cut short by his ...

Dr. Rasha Alawieh told border agents her respect for Hassan Nasrallah is spiritual, not political. But the two are ...

Bashar al Assad was not meant to be president, but a twist of fate forced the former eye doctor - and his London-raised wife - to head back to Syria to continue a family dynasty.

Back in 1971 the Assad family seized power through military force and quickly began suppressing the population, silencing dissent by imprisoning or killing anyone who challenged their authority. Dr.