Bashar Hafez al Assad

Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s call for the BRICS to intervene against his opponents and appeals by Palestinian groups for intervention against Israel both came to nothing...

Nabil Elaraby the Egyptian Secretary General of the Arab League has helped it to wake up to the Arab Spring taking an unexpectedly robust line on Syria’s President Bashar al Assad...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki joined several Arab heads of state in urging China to apply pressure to Bashar al Assad’s regime in Syria where a bloody conflict has been under way for over a year...

Increasingly conscious of its image abroad Beijing got its more robust diplomats to defend its support for Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi last year and Syria’s Bashar al Assad this year...

However Erdogan’s close friendships with Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Syria’s Bashar al Assad points to a limited enthusiasm for democrats and democracy...

Mubarak's fast-rising youngest son Gamal is tipped to join Syria's Bashar al Assad as a hereditary president; he claims that elections to the ruling National Democratic Party are conducted in a democratic manner...