A post shared on Facebook claims that deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is returning to ophthalmology in Russia. Verdict: ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad ... He moved to London in the 1980s to become an ophthalmologist, inspired by the ability of science to give people sight.

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...

When, aged 25, Asma Akhras swapped pursuing an MBA at Harvard for marrying a meek-looking ex-ophthalmology student named ...

When Bashar al-Assad assumed the presidency of Syria ... to which the Assad family belongs. Bashar, a trained ophthalmologist educated in London, was not the original heir to power.

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...

Assad's second son found himself thrust into power after the death of his elder brother. He withstood the civil war that followed the 2011 Arab Spring at the cost of a bloody civil war. On Sunday, he ...

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad fled his country for Russia. His departure marks the end of a half-century of authoritarian rule under the Assad family. When the quiet ophthalmologist inherited ...

On his death, he was succeeded by his son Bashar, who had previously worked as an ophthalmologist in London. It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was ...

The dramatic downfall of Syria's iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad marks an end to ... graduating as an ophthalmologist in 1988. Assad then served as an army doctor at a Damascus military ...