AOL13d
FACT CHECK: No Evidence Bashar al-Assad Is Returning To Ophthalmology
One user wrote, “Dr. Assad will return to ophthalmology after being deposed as president of Syria and plans to set up an eye ...
Middle East Eye1d
'Likely forged' documents circulate claiming Asma al-Assad was MI5 spy
Documents circulating on social media claiming Syria's former first lady Asma al-Assad was a spy for British intelligence ...
The Australian1mon
Bashar al-Assad, an ophthalmologist who became a dictator, is the last of a despotic dynasty
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.
The Times of Israel2d
Post-Assad Syria — A Work In Progress
Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a ...
India.com1mon
Syria Crisis: The Rise and Ruthlessness of Bashar al-Assad
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.
The Irish Times29d
Lara Marlowe on meeting Bashar al-Assad: ‘He was comical-looking. They called him ‘the giraffe’
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 ...
Yahoo News28d
Tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father set alight after Syrian rebel victory
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 ...
Daily Mail1mon
Inside Bashar al-Assad's rise to Syrian president: From London eye doctor to tyrant after tragedy put him first in line to inherit throne as murderous dictator
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 ...
Euronews29d
Tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father set alight after Syrian rebel victory
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 plunged into a 13-year civil war, in the course ...