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jan 9, 2000 - Bashar Al-Assad becomes president of Syria (d

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President Hafez al-Assad of Syria dies. The Ba’ath Party selects his son, Bashar, a London-trained ophthalmologist, to succeed him. The death of al-Assad is expected to bring about more political openness, but his son quickly assumes the tight control his father had exercised on the country.

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jan 9, 2000
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~ 24 years ago