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Bashar al-Assad. بَشَّارُ الْأَسَد. Assad in 2018. 19th President of Syria. Incumbent. Assumed office. Prime Minister. Muhammad Mustafa Mero Muhammad Naji al-Otari Adel Safar Riyad Farid Hijab Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji Wael Nader al-Halqi Imad Khamis Hussein Arnous. Vice President. Abdul Halim Khaddam Zuhair Masharqa Farouk al-Sharaa Najah al-Attar.
May 19, 2023 · In a speech, President Assad insisted that Syria would always belong to the Arab world. But other countries should not interfere with what happened inside its borders.
6 days ago · Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria since 2000, when he succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad. In spite of early hopes that he would support democratic reforms, he largely continued his father’s authoritarian methods. Beginning in 2011, he faced a major uprising that evolved into civil war.
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May 19, 2023 · By Jeremy Bowen. BBC International editor, Lebanon. President Bashar al-Assad strode into the Arab League summit in Jeddah, relishing the clearest recognition yet that he has won his war for...
Oct 11, 2021 · Oct. 11, 2021. BEIRUT, Lebanon — For a man who has spent the last decade battling armed rebels, being shunned in international forums and watching a brutal civil war dismantle his economy, the past...
May 18, 2023 · President 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...
Apr 13, 2023 · President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was isolated for years after brutally crushing his country’s Arab Spring uprising. But in most Arab capitals today, the only question is how — not whether...
