Bashar al-Assad heads up this country from its capital, Damascus
In Damascus, a white Peugeot 504 idled on every other corner with ... Bashar Al 
Assad: An Intimate Profile of a Mass Murderer ... As soon as the boys hung up, 
Bashar summoned the head of the guards at the ... was part of Assad's social 
circle and has now fled the country to escape its ongoing civil war.