Bashar al-Assad

2 hours ago - Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian former politician, doctor and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general ...

May 12, 2005 - Bashar al-Assad (born September 11, 1965, Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian dynast who succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, as president of Syria in 2000 and served until 2024, when he was toppled after 13 years of civil war.

2 days ago - The move to appoint a member of his own family as his successor was met with criticism in some quarters of the Syrian ruling class, but Assad persisted with his plan and demoted officials who opposed this succession. Assad died in June 2000 and Bashar succeeded him as president, serving until ...

9 hours ago - Former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. kremlin.ru · Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has retreated into a secluded life in Moscow after losing power and is no longer of interest to his longtime backer Vladimir Putin, The Guardian reported ...

December 4, 2020 - According to the country’s constitution, Bashar al-Assad will remain in power until 2028. By then he will have been the country’s president for 28 years. There is no indication that he will voluntarily leave the presidency then.

3 days ago - In 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” The graffiti was a thinly veiled threat that Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, a London-trained ophthalmologist, would be next in the line of Arab dictators toppled by the then raging Arab spring.

2 days ago - Download full report Download ‘Syria ... Ministry announced that President Bashar al-Assad, who had governed Syria since 2000, had resigned and offered asylum in Russia....

1 week ago - On 29 January 2025, during the Syrian Revolution Victory Conference in Damascus, the Syrian General Command appointed al-Sharaa as president for the transitional period after he had served as the de facto leader following the fall of the Assad regime. As president, al-Sharaa announced plans to issue a "constitutional declaration" as a legal reference following the repeal of the 2012 constitution of Ba'athist Syria.

December 9, 2024 - As the second son of President Hafez al-Assad, he was largely left to follow his own interests. He graduated from the College of Medicine of the University of Damascus in 1988 and then specialised in ophthalmology. In 1992, he went to London to pursue further studies. ... After the death of his older brother Basil in a high-speed car crash in 1994, Mr Assad was hastily recalled from the UK and thrust into the spotlight. He soon entered the Syrian ...

2 weeks ago - Bashar al-Assad was ousted as Syria's president and fled to Russia in December 2024, bringing a sudden end to his 24-year rule.

5 days ago - Assad was deposed in November 2024 after 14 years of civil war in Syria that killed some 600,000 people and displaced close to 14 million. The report said Assad’s last-minute flight to Russia caused his Syrian associates to feel abandoned, ...

Bashar Assad was Syria's president from 2000-2024 before rebel groups removed him from power. Assad's regime conducted a violent crackdown of protests in 2011 that led to the Syrian Civil War.

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has been forcibly removed from office.

1 week ago - Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a detailed report by The Guardian.

Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, a dominant figure in Middle East politics for three tumultuous decades, passed away on Saturday in Damascus. Syria's parliament quickly amended the constitution to lower the age requirement to permit the succession of his son Bashar, who is only 34 years old ...

The actor, who was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, also cast new light on his meeting with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and had harsh comments on both Donald Trump and Elon Musk

2 weeks ago - Rami Makhlouf, seen here in a screenshot from his Facebook account, was placed under house arrest by his cousin, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after Makhlouf claimed credit when victory for Assad in the civil war seemed assured in 2019.