Bashar al-Assad
Bashar Hafez al-Assad is the current President of Syria and Regional Secretary of the Syrian-led branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. His father Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria for 29 years until his death in 2000.
Bashar Assad Headlines
- Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war
- Kerry to Mideast to advance struggling Syria plan
- AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
- Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town
- UN chief hopes for Syria conference in early June
- Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
- Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
- US slams Russian anti-ship missiles going to Syria
- Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
- Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
- A look at 'enforced disappearances' worldwide
- Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
- Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan
- UN: 3 peacekeepers abducted between Israel-Syria
- Syrian troops flush out rebels from prison
- US, Turkey project united front on Syria
- Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
- US sanctions on 4 Syrian ministers, rebel leader
- Turkish PM talks Syria with Obama at White House
- Syrian troops repel rebel attack on Aleppo prison
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Syrian Civil War Headlines
- Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war
- Kerry to Mideast to advance struggling Syria plan
- Gunfire from Syria hits Israeli-controlled Golan
- Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town
- UN chief hopes for Syria conference in early June
- Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
- Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
- US slams Russian anti-ship missiles going to Syria
- Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
- Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
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