Bashar al-Assad Presidency and Controversy
Bashar al-Assad was born on September 11, 1965, in Damascus, Syria, the son of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
Senior Arab parliamentarians in Syria for talks with Bashar al-Assad
Syria was largely isolated from the rest of the Arab world after Bashar al-Assad’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011.