(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident.
After the fall of Bashar al-Assad in 2024, Rifaat fled once again. Reuters cited a source with direct knowledge of the episode as saying that he was denied passage through a Russian airbase and ...