Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia
Bashar al-Assad[a] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in the Syrian Revolution in 2024.
Fall of Syria's President puts an end to the Assad family’s 54 years …
Dec 8, 2024 · BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country …
Fall of the Assad regime - Wikipedia
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. After his death in June 2000, he was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Assad. [10][11][12][13] Hafez al-Assad built ...
What happened in Syria’s civil war, who took over and what’s
Dec 9, 2024 · For half a century, the Assad family ruled over Syria with an iron fist, with long-documented reports of mass incarceration torture, extra-judicial killings and atrocities against their own...
What happened in Syria? How did al-Assad fall? - Al Jazeera
Dec 8, 2024 · In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital. The former...
Bashar al-Assad | Family, Biography, Religion, Fleeing, & Facts ...
Jan 30, 2025 · Bashar al-Assad (born September 11, 1965, Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian dynast who succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, as president of Syria in 2000 and served until 2024, when he was toppled after 13 years of civil war.
How it happened: Two seismic weeks that toppled Syria’s …
Dec 8, 2024 · Half a century of rule by the Assad family in Syria has crumbled with astonishing speed. It has been less than two weeks since insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave and converged on the capital, Damascus, taking city after city in a matter of days.
Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with …
Dec 8, 2024 · Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning...
In Syria, the Assads leave a bitter legacy after a half-century ... - NPR
Dec 8, 2024 · With opposition forces entering the capital Damascus, Assad flew out of the city early Sunday morning and arrived in Moscow, where the Kremlin has granted asylum to the deposed leader, according...
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: The president who lost his homeland
Dec 8, 2024 · After more than 13 years of war, hundreds of thousands of people killed and millions displaced, the 24-year rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over.