| Putin ally |
| Syrian head |
| Syrian leader |
| Syrian despot |
| Top Damascene |
| Syrian V.I.P. |
| Cry to a mouse |
| Syria's leader |
| Mideast leader |
| Damascus V.I.P. |
| No. 1 Damascene |
| Bashar of Syria |
| Damascus notable |
| Syrian statesman |
| Syrian strongman |
| Syrian president |
| Damascus dictator |
| Mideast strongman |
| Syria's President |
| Damascus strongman |
| Equally melancholy |
| Recent Pelosi host |
| Syrian in the news |
| President of Syria |
| Ba'ath Party biggie |
| Civil war president |
| Damascus-born leader |
| Syria's Hafez al- -- |
| Syrian head of state |
| Syria's Bashar al-__ |
| Longtime Syrian leader |
| Longtime Mideast leader |
| Embattled head of state |
| Embattled Syrian leader |
| Leader born in Damascus |
| Syrian civil war figure |
| Syrian president Bashar |
| Hafez or Bashar in Syria |
| 1970 military coup leader |
| Longtime Syrian president |
| Longtime Syrian strongman |
| Embattled Syrian president |
| Syrian Ba'ath Party leader |
| Syrian leader Hafez al-___ |
| Long-time Syrian president |
| Mideast ruling family name |
| Heavy-handed ruler of Syria |
| Big name in Syrian politics |
| Syria's president since 2000 |
| Syrian strongman in the news |
| Besieged Syrian leader Bashar |
| Name of Syria's ruling family |
| Head of a country in civil war |
| Leader of a 1970 military coup |
| Mideast political dynasty name |
| Syrian strongman Bashar al-___ |
| Mideast leadership family name |
| Hafez al-___, Syrian president |
| Syrian president Bashar al-___ |
| Either of two Syrian presidents |
| Longtime name in Syrian leadership |
| Longtime Syrian ruling family name |
| Syria's Bashar or his father Hafez |
| Syrian president, present and past |
| Name of father-and-son world leaders |
| Former Syrian president Hafez al -___ |
| Dictator who trained as an ophthalmologist |
| Obama imposed sanctions on him in May 2011 |
| The U.N. accused him of war crimes in 2013 |
| President who won 97.6% of the vote in 2007 |
| He began his third presidential term in 2014 |
| Bashar al-___ (Syrian president and uprising focus) |
| Leader called "a thug and a murderer" by Kerry in 2013 |
| Mideast president elected the same year as the younger Bush |