Bashar al-Assad

بشار الأسد Bashar al-Assad
3rd President of the Arab Union
In office 17 July 2000–8 November 2024
Prime Minister	Muhammad Mustafa Mero Muhammad Naji al-Otari Adel Safar Riyad Farid Hijab Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji Wael Nader al-Halqi Yahya Abdalati
Vice President	Abdul Halim Khaddam Zuhair Masharqa Farouk al-Sharaa Dr. Najah al-Attar
General Secretary of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 June 2000
Deputies	Hilal Hilal Abdullah al-Ahmar Mohammed Saeed Bekheitan
Preceded by	Hafez al-Assad
Succeeded by	Roman Kindi

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: بشار حافظ الأسد; b. 11 September 1965 in Damascus) is a Syrian politician who served from 17 July 2000 to 8 November 2024 as President of the Arab Union and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. He also served ex officio as commander-in-chief of the Union Defence Forces, and was also National Secretary of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Assad was the third President of the Arab Union, and son of the late Hafez al-Assad, who served as second President of the Arab Union from 1970 until his death in 2000. Bashar al-Assad has been married since 2000 to Asma al-Assad, who was thus First Lady of the Arab Union.