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Hafez al-Assad 2000 Deaths

Hafez al-AssadAge: 69 dictatorial president of Syria who presided over the country with an iron fist since leading a 1971 military coup. Assad transformed the once insignificant Syria into a…

Bashar al-Assad, 2005 News

president of Syria, faced international pressure to withdraw troops from Lebanon after the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Hundreds of thousands of…

Ba'ath party

(Encyclopedia) Ba'ath partyBa'ath partybäˈäth [key], Arab political party, in Syria and in Iraq. Founded in Damascus in 1941 with an ideology of secularism, socialism, and pan-Arab unionism, it was…

March 2005

WorldLeftist Government Assumes Power in Uruguay (March 1): Tabaré Vázquez, a Socialist, sworn in as president. Inauguration marks the first time in the country's history the left is in…

2012 World News: Syria

As Casualties Mount, No End in Sight in Syria's Civil War by Beth Rowen Bashar AssadRelated Links Syria Country Profile 2012 Year in…