Bashar Al-Assad Research Paper

Bashar al-Assad has been the president of Syria since July 17, 2000. He was born on September 11, 1965 in Damascus, Syria. Before becoming president, Assad had been Commander in Chief of the armed forces from 1994-1999 after his brother, Bassel, died in an accidental auto accident. Bashar al-Assad studied Ophthalmology at the Tishrin military hospital in Damascus, SDyria from 1988-1992. He has previously continued to study Ophthalmology in London. When Assad became president in 2000, he was taking after his father, Hafez al-Assad, who was the syrian president from March 12, 1971 until his death on June 10, 2000. Bashar al-Assad has declared Israel as an enemy to Syria and is on the Palestinian side. When Bashar al-Assad was faced with the

The positive thing out of this is that Syria now has more room for Syrians with the Palestinians retreating back out of Syria although it came with a big price with the death of 200,000 people which is easily the negative cause out of his conflict. Because of the three million people that have fled Syria, other countries including Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, have had a hard time dealing with border control and people rushing into their country. Although three million is a lot of people, it is assumed that close to 6.5 million people are displaced within Syria bringing the total number to 9.5 million people, half of Syria’s population. The UN stepped in in December 2013 and provided about 6.5 billion dollars towards medical care, food, water, shelter, education, and health services. Many deaths have been caused because of chemical weapons in August of 2013 close to the city of Damascus. After this incident, President Bashar al-Assad agreed to a deal with the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW) to remove or destroy Syria’s chemical weapons