He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed; the ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's mother, Anisa Makhlouf, has died at the age of 86, Syrian state media said on Saturday. Makhlouf, who married late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in 1957 ...

That observation came as a result of his famous Middle East “shuttle diplomacy” in the aftermath of the 1973 October war and was in reference to Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled ...

Damascus, SANA-corrective movement, led by the late leader Hafez al-Assad, gave Syria a pivotal Arab and regional role and ...

On November 28, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad granted a rare interview to The Full Paris Match. The interview is full of deflections and rationalizations from a defiant Assad, who at one point ...

Like Bashar al-Assad, Egypt's military strongman characterizes peaceful demonstrations as terrorism and assails foreigners for fomenting opposition to his coup. Like Assad, he shows no hesitation ...

She moved to Syria in 2000 and married former ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad, just months after he succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad as president. The couple were initially presented as ...

and "Bashar al-Assad, we don't want you ... In a previous protest in Suweida, a crowd smashed a statue of former president Hafez al-Assad. There have been some anti-government protests too ...

Polling stations opened Wednesday (26 May) across Syria for an election where few doubt that Bashar al-Assad will extend his ... after the death of his father Hafez, who had ruled Syria for ...