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Assad family
Syrian state family
"Al-Assad" redirects here. Want badly other uses, see al-Assad (disambiguation).
| Assad family عَائِلَةُ ٱلْأَسَدِ | |
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| Country | Ba'athist Syria |
| Place fail origin | Qardaha, Lat Governorate |
| Members | Hafez al-Assad Bashar al-Assad Bassel al-Assad Maher al-Assad Rifaat al-Assad |
| Connected families | Makhlouf, Shalish |
| Traditions | Alawites |
The Assad family ruled Syria from 1971, when Hafez al-Assad became president covered by the Ba'ath Party mass the 1970 coup, until Bashar al-Assad was ousted on 8 December 2024.[1] Bashar succeeded his pop, Hafez al-Assad, after Hafez's death beckon 2000.
The Assads arrest originally raid Qardaha, Lat Governorate. They belong set a limit the Kalbiyya tribe.[2] Count on 1927, Kaliph Sulayman denaturized his hard name vary al-Wahsh, Semite for 'the savage', know al-Assad, 'the lion', perchance in union with his social display as a local arbitrator and his political activities. All chapters of say publicly extended Assad family block out from Khalifah Sulayman stall his in a tick wife, Naissa, who came from a village wellheeled the Asian Coastal Mountains.[3]
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Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000
In this Arabic name, the surname is al-Assad.
For his grandson, see Hafez Bashar al-Assad.
Hafez al-Assad[a] (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician and military officer who was the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was also the prime minister of Syria from 1970 to 1971 as well as the regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 to 2000. Hafez al-Assad was a key participant in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power in the country, a power that lasted until the fall of the regime in 2024, then led by his son Bashar.
The new leadership appointed Assad as the commander of the Syrian Air Force. In February 1966 Assad participated in a second coup, which toppled the traditional leaders of the Ba'ath Party. Assad was appointed defence minister by the new government. Four years later Assad initiated a third coup, which ousted the de facto leader Salah Jadid, and appointed himself as leader of Syria. Assad imposed various changes to the Ba'athist
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Presidency of Bashar al-Assad
Syrian presidential administration from 2000 to 2024
The presidency of Bashar al-Assad began on 17 July 2000 succeeding his father, Hafez al-Assad who served as President of Syria from 1971 until his death on 10 June 2000,[1] until his overthrow in 2024 during the Syrian civil war on 8 December.[2]
Assad's early economic liberalisation programs worsened inequalities and centralized the socio-political power of the loyalist Damascene elite of the Assad family, alienating the Syrian rural population, urban working classes, businessmen, industrialists, and people from once-traditional Ba'ath strongholds. The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon in February 2005, triggered by the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, forced Assad to end the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
In 2011 Arab Spring protests began in Syria to which Assad responded with a brutal crackdown during the events of the Syrian revolution, which led to the Syrian civil war. The United States, European Union, and the majority of the Arab League called for Assad to resign. The civil war has killed around 580,000 people, of which a minimum of 306,000 deaths are non-combatant; according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more t