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Bookmark or Share- Bashar al-Assad - WikipediaBashar al-Assad [a] [b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which nominally espouses a neo-Ba'athist ideology.
- The Long Isolation of Syria’s al-Assad Is Over - The New York TimesPresident Bashar al-Assad of Syria spent more than a decade in global isolation after being shunned for committing a series of atrocities during his country’s civil war. Sergey Ponomarev for...
- Bashar al-Assad | Family, Biography, & Facts | BritannicaBashar al-Assad (born September 11, 1965, Damascus, Syria) Syrian president from 2000. He succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled Syria since 1971. In spite of early hopes that his presidency would usher in an era of democratic reform and economic revival, Bashar al-Assad largely continued his father’s authoritarian methods.
- Profile: Bashar al-Assad | Bashar al-Assad News | Al JazeeraSyrian President Bashar al-Assad inherited power in July 2000, a month after his father, military strongman Hafez al-Assad died. But since March 2011, his rule over Syria has been under threat,...
- Syria’s Assad wins 4th term with 95% of vote, in election the West ...CAIRO, May 27 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which...
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