The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University through the merger of the Medical School and the Institute of Law. It adopted its current name after the founding of the University of Aleppo in 1958.
La Caserne Hamidieh - previous headquarter of the Syrian University, is the Faculty of Law building
Aerial view of the headquarter in 1933
International students including Nigerian Researcher Dr. Abdul-Fattah Adelabu (middle) at Damascus University City Mazzah 1993
Damascus University headquarter in Baramkeh
Bashar al-Assad is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which nominally espouses a neo-Ba'athist ideology. His father and predecessor was General Hafiz al-Assad, whose presidency in 1971–2000 marked the transfiguration of Syria from a republican state into a de facto dynastic dictatorship, tightly controlled by an Alawite-dominated elite composed of the armed forces and the Mukhabarat, who are loyal to the al-Assad family.
Bashar in 2022
Bassel al-Assad, Bashar's older brother, died in 1994, paving the way for Bashar's future presidency.
Assad in 2004
The crime-scene in Beirut where Hariri and 21 others were killed in a terrorist attack in February 2005. The area was cordoned off to conduct an international investigation.