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Bashar al-Assad [a] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer, and former dictator [1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown by Syrian rebels in 2024.
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of the civilian deaths. [21] The Assad government perpetrated numerous war crimes during the course of the Syrian civil war, [a] and Assad's army, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, also carried out several attacks with chemical weapons. [27]
Assad visited Moscow on Nov. 28, a day after Syrian rebel forces attacked the northern province of Aleppo and lightning drive across the country, but his pleas for military intervention fell on ...
At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns.
Who is Bashar al-Assad? Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power in Syria for more than five decades. A former ophthalmologist who studied in London, Assad ...
Asma Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, meets with humanitarian and business groups in Damascus, Syria April 7, 2021.
The Assad family originates from Ali Sulayman al-Wahsh, Hafez al-Assad's father, who was born in 1875 and lived in the village of Qardaha in the coastal Syrian mountains. . The locals reportedly nicknamed him "Wahsh", Arabic for "wild beast", because he was physically strong and a good fight
A man walks on a poster of Bashar al-Assad as a sanitation worker removes it from the street downtown, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus ...