<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" id="mwAXo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a> succeeds his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad" id="mwAXs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hafez al-Assad">Hafez al-Assad</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Syria" id="mwAXw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Syria">President of Syria</a>.<sup about="#mwt84" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_10#cite_note-16" id="mwAX0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAX4">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt81" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB98"><a class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/world/meast/syria-fast-facts/index.html" id="mwB-A" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Syria Fast Facts"</a>. <i id="mwB-E">CNN</i>. 19 June 2013<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB-I">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB-M">2022-01-12</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt81" class="Z3988" id="mwB-Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=CNN&amp;rft.atitle=Syria+Fast+Facts&amp;rft.date=2013-06-19&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F06%2F18%2Fworld%2Fmeast%2Fsyria-fast-facts%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+10"></span></span>