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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 19th president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown by Syrian rebels in December 2024.
After Hafez al-Assad's death, his son and successor Bashar al-Assad inherited the existing personality cult, with the party hailing him as the "Young Leader" and "Hope of the People." Drawing influence from North Korea's hereditary leadership model , official propaganda in Syria ascribed divine features to the Assad family, and reveres the ...
Here’s what happened in Syria, what it means, and what might come next. ... What does this mean for the world? The fall of Assad has huge reverberations throughout the region and around the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed credit for the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, heralding it as a turning point in the Middle East and saying it was a ...
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.
Celebration in Richardson, Texas, USA after the fall of the Assad regime. In the United States, the White House said President Joe Biden had a meeting with members of the national security to address the situation. [13] Biden later said the Assad regime's end was a "fundamental act of justice" but warned of possible instablity in the region. [12]
Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad and seized control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a ...
Fawwaz al-Assad (1962–2015), was the first real Shabiha and gave the meaning known today to the word Shabiha and the concept of Tashbeeh that is to act like a thug. [55] He had sanctions placed on him in 2011 by the EU for being involved with the Shabbiha militia in the repression of protestors during the Syrian Civil War. [53] [54]