Bashar al-Assad[a] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer, and former dictator [1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown by Syrian rebels in 2024.

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...

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of the civilian deaths. [21] The Assad government perpetrated numerous war crimes during the course of the Syrian civil war, [a] and Assad's army, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, also carried out several attacks with chemical weapons. [27]

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...

Dec 9, 2024 · In a speech from the Umayyad Mosque on Sunday, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Syria’s main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), called the toppling of Assad a “victory for the entire...

Jan 30, 2025 · Bashar al-Assad 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.

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...