Ensuring national security, increasing influence among its Arab neighbors, and securing the return of the Golan Heights, are the primary goals of President Bashar al-Assad's foreign policy.

On 5 April 2007, Issa met with Syrian president Bashar Assad to discuss Middle East issues, one day after Assad met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

* Bashar al-Assad's Lebanon Gamble, William Harris, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2005

Odrade appoints him again as Bashar of the military forces of the Sisterhood for the assault on the Honored Matres.

Vladimir Harkonnen is the direct-line male descendant of the Bashar Abulurd Harkonnen who was banished for cowardice after the Battle of Corrin.

It also has ties with the leadership in Syria, specifically with President Hafez al-Assad ( until his death in 2000 ) and his son and successor Bashar al-Assad.

On December 30, 2005 Syria's former Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, said that " Hariri received many threats " from Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad.

Khalid Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and President Ahmadinejad of Iran urged all Arab states with remaining ties to Israel to cut them.

Syria was ruled autocratically by Assad during 1970 – 2000, and after Hafez al-Assad's death in 2000, he was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Assad.

In the context of the Arab Spring of 2011, Bashar al-Assad's government faces the ongoing uprising.

The two presidents who have been in power since 1970 — the late Hafiz al-Asad followed by his son Bashar al-Asad — were approved in plebiscites where there were no other candidates.

Hafiz al-Asad took power in 1970, and after his death in 2000 was succeeded by his son, Bashar al-Asad.

There was a surge of interest in political reform after Bashar al-Asad assumed power in 2000.

Because of the Alawite composition of the Syrian armed forces, its interests are closely aligned with those of President Bashar al-Assad and the Assad family.

On 19 December 2009, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri visited Syria, and stayed in Damascus for 3 days meeting with President Bashar Al-Assad & breaking the ice between the two sides.

In 2008 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad confirmed that talks with Israel have resumed through a third party.

Relations between Syria and Saudi Arabia have become severed due to Saudi Arabia's support for the rebels and their support for the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power.

** Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.

* Bashar al-Assad ( Syria ) The President of Syria.

The Free Syrian Army claimed the Bashar al-Assad regime recruited mercenaries from Iran, Hezbollah militia and the Iraqi Mahdi Army militia during the Syrian uprising.

President Bashar al-Asad continued to express public support for Palestinian terrorist groups as elements of the resistance against Israel.

This strategy of creating a cult of personality was pursued further by Hafez's son and current ruler Bashar al-Assad.

The 12th session of the Forum took place on Thursday, November 24th, 2011 as a site visit to the newly Palestinian planned city called “ RAWABI ” near Ramallah, followed by a discussion meeting with two Palestinian businessmen Mr. Bashar Masri, Chairman of Massar International and Mr. Talal Nassereddin, CEO of Birzeit Pharmaceutical Company.

* Bashar Warda, archbishop of Arbil / Ankawa ( since July 2010 );

After Xavier assassinated the Grand Patriarch, Iblis Ginjo, Commander / Supreme Bashar Vorian was the only person who tried to clear his name.

The city of Daraa was the starting point of the 2011 uprising against the government lead by President Bashar Al-Assad.

In May 2011, Lévy argued for military intervention in Syria against Bashar al-Assad after violence against civilians in response to the 2011 Syrian uprising.

During the Syrian uprising against the president Bashar Al Assad, the exchange rate of the Syrian pound has deteriorated quickly from 47 SYP to 1 USD in March 2011 to over 100 SYP to 1 USD in March 2012.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has been accused by human rights organizations of slaughtering thousands of civilians, with estimates of 14, 000 civilians being killed as of July 2012 during the uprising against his dictatorship.

After U. S. Gulf Cooperation Council forum at the GCC secretariat in Riyadh on 31 March 2012, he said it was a “ duty ” to arm the Syrian opposition and help them defend themselves against the daily bloody crackdown by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Idlib has been an opposition stronghold during the Syrian civil war against the government of Bashar al-Assad.

In former president Jimmy Carter's book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Hadley is referred to, without being named, as personally denying Carter permission to visit Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in early 2005 due to " differences with Syria concerning U. S. policy in Iraq.

* 1965 – Bashar al-Assad, Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria

In February 2011, just before the 2011 Syrian protests unfolded, Vogue published a controversial piece by Joan Juliet Buck on Asma al-Assad – wife of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

* Seven years of Bashar al-Assad ’ s rule 2000 – 2007, Forward Magazine ( Syria )

– Haji Bashar

* Khademul Bashar ( 1935 – 1976 ), Bir Uttam, Sector Commander of Liberation War & former Chief of Bangladesh Air Force.

The eight finalists were Mohammad Attia ( Egypt ), Bashar Al Shatty ( Kuwait ), Sophia El Mareekh ( Morocco ), Bahaa ' El Kafy ( Tunisia ), Ahmed El Sherif ( Tunisia ), Myriam Attallah ( Syria ), Mohammad Khalawi ( Saudi Arabia ) and Cynthia Karam ( Lebanon ).

In Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ), Miles Teg — the former Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit — is noted to be 296 standard years old and to have a striking resemblance to his ancestor, Leto Atreides I.

* Bashar ( Dune ), a fictional military rank in the Dune universe

His first short film, The Wounded Heads ( Yarali Bashar ), was a documentary about the illegal mourning tradition of head slashing in the Azerbaijan region of northern Iran.

It was known by other names, such as Al-Khatt (), immortalized in the poetry of ` Antara ibn Shaddad, Tarafa ibn Al -` Abd, Bashar ibn Burd ( in his famous Ba ' yya ), and others.

Bashar al-Assad ( Syria ),

Effective power in Syria rests with the President of the Republic ( since 2000, Bashar al-Assad, reelected in 2007 ), who, according to § 84 of the old constitution, was elected in an uncontested popular referendum on the proposal of the Syrian branch of the Baath Party.