Con Coughlin

Con Coughlin is a British journalist and author who is the Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor of the Daily Telegraph. He is one of Britain's most experienced and well-connected defence correspondents and has written extensively on Middle Eastern politics, terrorism and military affairs over a career spanning decades. Assad examines the life, rise and brutal rule of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president whose regime plunged Syria into one of the most devastating civil wars of the twenty-first century. Coughlin draws on his extensive network of sources and years of reporting to create a detailed portrait of the man behind one of the world's most oppressive regimes. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Assad offers essential listening and reading for anyone who wants to understand the Syrian conflict and the man whose determination to hold power at any cost caused one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes of our time.