Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As pres
Assad in 2018
Photograph of Bassel al-Assad (1962–1994), Bashar's older brother, who was initially destined to succeed his father in the presidency of Syria, but died in an automobile accident in 1994
Young Bashar al-Assad serving in the military
Assad with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Damascus, 3 December 2003
Hafez al-Assad
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Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian politician and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was previously the prime minister from 1970 to 1971 as well as th
Bashar al-Assad
…commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000. In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In…
Official portrait, 1986
Hafez al-Assad (above) standing on the wing of a Fiat G.46-4B with fellow cadets at the Syrian AF Academy outside Aleppo, 1951–52
Michel Aflaq and Salah Jadid, 1963
Women serving in the army, 1969