Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad Haifaffen sha daya ga watan satumban 1965, Dan siyasa ne a syriakuma shugaban kasar na yanzu 19.. tun17 ga watan july 2000.An haife shi kuma ya girma a Damascus, Bashar ya kammala karatun likitanci na jami'ar Damascus a shekara ta 1988 kuma ya fara aiki a matsayin likita a sojojin Siriya . Shekaru hudu bayan haka, ya halarci karatun digiri na biyu a Asibitin Ido na Western da ke Landan, wanda ya kware a fannin ilimin ido . A cikin 1994, bayan da ɗan'uwansa Bassel ya mutu a wani hatsarin mota, an sake kiran Bashar zuwa Siriya don ya karɓi aikin Bassel a matsayin magaji . Ya shiga makarantar horas da sojoji, inda ya jagoranci mamayar da Siriya ta yi wa Lebanon a shekarar 1998. A ranar 17 ga Yuli, 2000, Bashar al-Assad ya zama shugaban kasa, ya gaji mahaifinsa Hafiz, wanda ya rasu a ranar 10 ga Yuni 2000 . Wani jerin hare-hare a cikin 2001–02 ya kawo karshen bazarar Damascus, lokacin fafutukar al'adu da siyasa da ke nuna kira ga gaskiya da dimokuradiyya. Ko da yake Bashar ya gaji tsarin mulki da dabi'un dabi'un da Hafiz al-Assad ya reno, amma bai da aminci da mahaifinsa ya samu, wanda ya haifar da rashin jin daɗi ga mulkinsa. A sakamakon haka, da yawa daga cikin tsofaffin Guard sun yi murabus ko kuma an wanke su; Aka maye gurbin da'irar ta cikin da ƙwararrun masu aminci daga dangin Alawite