There have been several instances of chemical weapons attacks during the Syrian civil war, beginning in 2012, which were corroborated by national governments, the United Nations, the Organisation for
Photo of a Syrian girl who participated in an anti-Assad demonstration in Hannover on the second anniversary of the Ghouta massacre (21 August 2015)
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
Use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war
…after the intervention by Syria's main opposition group." The opposition Hama Media Centre said the attack on the convoy was carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. In 2014, the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria concluded that the use of chlorine was systematic and widespread. In its third report dated…
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