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Al-Assad: The Presidency That Never Ends - Civil Rights Defenders
December 4, 2020 - The al-Assad family has ruled Syria and the Syrian Ba’ath party for 50 years. In 2000, Bashar al-Assad, son of former President Hazef al-Assad, was appointed President of Syria by means of a quick and staged election when his father passed away.
Syrian politician and former rebel commander, president of Syria since 2025
Factsheet
Ahmed al-Sharaa أحمد الشرع
President of Syria Incumbent
Assumed office
29 January 2025
Assumed office
29 January 2025
Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir
(2024–2025)
(2024–2025)
Ahmed al-Sharaa أحمد الشرع
President of Syria Incumbent
Assumed office
29 January 2025
Assumed office
29 January 2025
Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir
(2024–2025)
(2024–2025)
Wikipedia
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Ahmed al-Sharaa - Wikipedia
1 day ago - He previously served as the emir ... his appointment as president. Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from Daraa and the Golan Heights, he grew up in Syria's capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq ...
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Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia
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 ...
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From doctor to dictator - the rise and fall of Syria's President ...
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Former Syrian president reportedly ‘playing video games’ while ...
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What does the US want from Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa? | DW News - ...
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How Syria’s President Transformed His Image - YouTube
BBC
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Syria without Assad is lighter - but now there are new problems
A major milestone came in November when Sharaa became the first Syrian president to visit the White House. ... Trump's welcome in the Oval Office was relaxed. He sprayed Sharaa with Trump-branded cologne, before presenting him with his own supply to take home for his wife, jokingly asking him ...
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Wikipedia
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List of presidents of Syria - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - ^ Following the fall of the Assad regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa served as Syria's de facto leader as the emir of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, general commander and head of the new Syrian administration until 29 January 2025, when he was appointed President ...
Kurdistan24
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Syria's Six Presidents: A Historical Overview from Independence to 2024
He entered into Syrian politics in the 1930s and was a member of the National Bloc, an Arab anti-colonial group opposing French rule in Syria. He took leadership of the National Bloc in 1940. served two terms. His first term of presidency ended with Husni al-Za'im's 1949 coup d’etat, but he regained power in 1955.
Al Majalla
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From Barakat to Assad: The Syrian presidency in 100 years | Al Majalla
Martial law was imposed by al-Za’im, who also aborted the Syrian constitution, suspended parliament, and banned political parties. After forcing al-Quwatli to resign, he staged a crooked referendum—the first ever in Syrian history—becoming president on 26 June 1949. Before that, presidents ...
Wikipedia
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President of Syria - Wikipedia
2 days ago - In 1922, French authorities created the Syrian Federation under the Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, with Subhi Barakat serving as its president. The federation was short-lived and was replaced by the State of Syria in 1925.
Jewish Virtual Library
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Presidents of Syria (1922-Present)
Final Report And Recommendations Of The Syria Study Group
BBC
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Syria to join coalition to defeat IS group after Trump meeting
Not long ago, he led a branch of Al-Qaeda - the group behind the 9/11 attacks and many others - before breaking off ties. Even until this year, he was the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed Islamist group which the US officially considered a terrorist organisation until four months ago, with a $10m bounty on his head. The Treasury Department removed al-Sharaa from its "specially designated global terrorist list" just last week. But since becoming interim Syrian president, al-Sharaa has worked to soften his public image as he tries to rebuild Syria, with foreign support, following 13 years of war.
Published November 11, 2025
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Bashar al-Assad | Family, Biography, Religion, Fleeing, & Facts | Britannica
May 12, 2005 - Bashar al-Assad 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.
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Hafez al-Assad - Wikipedia
2 days ago - After 1955, Atassi's hold on the country was increasingly shaky. As a result of the 1955 election, Atassi was replaced by Shukri al-Quwatli, who was president before Syria's independence from France.
Middle East Institute
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Syria's heads of state over the past century | Middle East Institute
While Syria has had three heads of state with Kurdish ancestry, none of them came from the Kurdish heartland in the northeast, and all ruled prior to the mid-1950s.[iv] The underrepresentation of Kurds in power has been manifest in their inability to protect their basic rights. Contrary to popular belief, discriminatory policies against the Kurds started before the Ba’athist coup of 1963.
BBC
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Ahmed al-Sharaa named Syria's transitional president
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for the "transitional period", state media report, seven weeks after he led the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad.
Published January 31, 2025
YouTube
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New President of Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa - YouTube
How did Ahmed al-Sharaa go from an imprisoned al-Qaeda fighter to the leader of Syria? What is the psychological impact of living a secret life for over twen...
Published February 10, 2025
NYTimes
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Opinion | A Presidency That Isn’t a Throne - The New York Times
2 weeks ago - When the floor opened for questions, I expected to hear people ask about the massacre of Alawite civilians, the Israeli attacks on the southern border or other events that had shaken the country since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s ...
U.S. Department of State
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Syria - Travels of the President - Travels - Department History - Office of the Historian
Syria - Travels of the President - Travels - Department History
Reuters
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Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia | Reuters
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.
AP News
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Al-Sharaa to become the first Syrian president to visit the White House after an unlikely rise | AP News
Emily Pumphrey, a spokesperson ... Iraq in 2024. Before Assad’s fall, al-Sharaa — then known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Golani — led Hayat Tahrir ......
Published November 10, 2025
House of Commons Library
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Syria after Assad: Consequences and interim authorities 2025 - House of Commons Library
2 days ago - Download full report Download ‘Syria after Assad: Consequences and interim authorities 2025’ report (3 MB , PDF) In December 2024, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that President Bashar al-Assad, who had governed Syria since 2000, ...