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The Assad family, c. 1993.Front: Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra al-Assad. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971, when Hafez al-Assad seized power and became the president of Syria under the Syrian Ba'ath Party.
Assad visited Riyadh in September 2009, [82] and in October, King Abdullah visited Assad in Damascus. [83] Syria appointed a new ambassador, Mahdi Dakhlallah, to Saudi Arabia the same month, [84] restoring diplomatic relations. [citation needed] By January 2010, Assad had visited Saudi Arabia three times. [85]
An anchor reads the Sunday news: “We announce to you from the Syrian news channel the victory of the great Syrian revolution after 13 years of patience and sacrifice.”
When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not only his 24-year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family ruling Syria. Before Assad took office in 2000, his late ...
However, with the governments' violent response to the Syrian civil war in 2011, relations cooled dramatically and senior American officials, including President Obama himself, repeatedly called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign. Syria has publicly condemned international terrorist attacks, as it denies any involvement in Hariri ...
Instead, Assad, the second son of former Syrian ruler Hafez Assad, planned to be an ophthalmologist. He studied in Syria and then London before his career as an eye doctor was cut short by his ...
Biden warned of "a moment of risk" over Syria's future. Assad was ousted by a coalition that included Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose leader fought the US in Iraq. ... prompting Assad to flee to ...
After 13 years of Syria’s grinding civil war, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, the dictator fleeing his country in the face of a sensational advance by rebel forces.