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At an Arab summit in Libya in 1969, shortly after the September Revolution
The new Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sits in military uniform in the middle, surrounded by President Gamal Abdul Nasser (left) and Syrian President Nur al-Din al-Atasi (right).

President Hafez al-Assad signing the Federation of Arab Republics in Benghazi, Libya, on April 18, 1971
Seated around the table are Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, President Hafez al-Assad. Standing to the right behind Assad is his Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam.

President Hafez al-Asad attending the Steadfastness and Confrontation Summit in Libya in December 1977
From left to right: Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, Algerian President Houarie Boumedienne, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad

Arab leaders in Damascus on September 21, 1978 assembled to discuss the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Accords
From left to right: Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya, King Hussein of Jordan, Yasser Arafat (chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO), and Mudar Badran, the Prime Minister of Jordan

President Hafez al-Assad with Arab leaders in Damascus
From left to right: Hourai Boumedienne of Algeria, President Hafez al-Assad, Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya. Standing behind them is Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO.

Syrian journalist Yasser Abd Rabbo interviewing Muammar al-Gaddafi days after the September 1969 Revolution in Libya
Abd Rabbo (1932-2006) at the time was the correspondent for the Lebanese weekly al-Osbou al-Arabi. He was the first foreign journalist to interview architect of the Libyan Revolution.

Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad welcoming Libyan Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to Damascus in November 1969.
Left to right: Defense Minister Assad, Colonel Gaddafi, President Nur al-Din al-Atasi. Gaddafi had come to power in Libya only two months earlier and Atasi left power in Syria, exactly one year after this photo was taken.

The Al-Musawwar Magazine in August 1971
The magazine shows a photo of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat with President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus, ahead of the creation of the Federation of Arab Republics between Syria, Libya, and Egypt. The two children in the photograph are Assad's children Basel and Bushra al-Assad.

President Hafez al-Assad and Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi in the late 1970s
From left to right: Bashar al-Assad, Seif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad

President Hafez al-Assad in Kampala, Uganda, in June 1972
From left to right: President Hafez al-Assad, Uganda President Idi Amin, Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi

President Hafez al-Assad hosting Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 1971
The photo was taken during the talks over creation of the Federation of Arab Republicans between Syria, Egypt, and Libya

President Bashar al-Assad at the Khartoun Summit in Sudan on March 26, 2006
President Assad is pictured with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

A meeting of Arab and Muslim First Ladies in Istanbul, Turkey held in solidarity with the people of Gaza on January 10, 2009
From left to right: Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Libyan Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, Fauzia Gilani, wife of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emile Erdogan, wife of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Queen Rania of Jordan, Lebanese First Lady Wafaa Suleiman, and speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament Bahar Muradova