Bashar Al-Assad

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• Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected as President for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria, amid accusations that polls were “neither free nor fair”. 

• Assad got 95.1 percent of votes cast. In the last multi-candidate poll of 2014, he had won 88 percent of the vote. 

• Bashar al-Assad is a Syrian politician, who is the 19th president of Syria since 2000, succeeding his father who served from 1971 to 2000. He also served as commander-in-chief of Syrian Armed Forces and regional secretary of Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party in Syria. He started to work as a doctor in Syrian Army. 

• Syria is located in Western Asia. It shares a border with Mediterranean Sea in the west, Turkey in the north, Iraq in the east, Jordan in the south, and Israel & Lebanon in the southwest.