The president of the Syrian
Arab Republic. Has managed to survive 5 years of the Syrian War and regain most of the populated areas of the
country because of a
fair degree of support amongst most groups of the Syrian population.
Opposed by western interests, destructive
Gulf states and their puppets on the ground.
As a reformer, under his rule the Syrian economy steadily improved before the onset of the war. Several steps on the way to democracy were also taken such as a multi-party system in the Syrian Parliament, however strangely enough some western observers still claim the
country would be better off governed by the allies of the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda even though they strongly oppose democracy as a western invention.