Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician, military officer and dictator who was the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until...
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(March 2009). The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad (PDF) (Report). German Institute of Global and Area Studies. 97...
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Hafez Bashar al-Assad (Arabic: حافظ بشار الأسد; born 5 December 2001) is the eldest son of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad...
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Bassel al-Assad (Arabic: بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bāsil al-ʾAsad; 23 March 1962 – 21 January 1994) was a Syrian military officer, engineer and politician...
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Assad family (redirect from Al-Assad)
ruled Syria from 1971, when Hafez al-Assad became president under the Ba'ath Party following the 1970 coup, until Bashar al-Assad was ousted on 8 December...
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Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ lit. 'the memorizer' or...
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people named "Asad" or "Assad" are: Asadullah (disambiguation), multiple people Asad ibn Abd-al-Uzza, early Islamic historical figure Asad Abdul Rahman...
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Bushra al-Assad (Arabic: بُشْرَى ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bušrā al-ʾAsad; born 24 October 1960) is the first child and only daughter of Hafez al-Assad, who...
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(link) Ziadeh, Radwan (2011). "2: Inheriting Syria from Father to Son: Hafez al-Asad's Last Days". Power and Policy in Syria. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY...
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Rifaat Ali al-Assad (Arabic: رِفْعَتُ عَلِيِّ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Rifʿat al-ʾAsad; born 22 August 1937), known as the "Butcher of Hama", is a Syrian...
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On 26 June 1980, an assassination attempt on Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian president, was carried out by Muslim Brotherhood supporters who threw two grenades...
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Ḵorramšāhi, Bahāʾ-al-Din (2016). Zehn-o-zabān-e Ḥāfeẓ (in Persian). Tehran: Nāhid. ISBN 978-964-6205-18-5. Moʿin, Moḥammad (1996). Ḥāfeẓ-e širin-soḵan (in...
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Ba'athist Syria (redirect from Asad regime)
military officers. In 1970, president Nureddin al-Atassi and de facto leader Salah Jadid were overthrown by Hafez al-Assad in the Corrective Revolution. The...
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the Defense Companies paramilitary force, under the orders of President Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising...
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Retrieved 10 March 2013. HAFEZ MOHAMAD MAKHLOUF Sharp, Jeremy M. (9 August 2011). "Unrest in Syria and U.S. Sanctions Against the Asad Regime" (CRS Report...
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Lake Assad (redirect from Buhayrat al asad)
flow of the Euphrates. The project was completed under the presidency of Hafez al-Assad as part of his modernization policies and agricultural reforms. In...
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Amin al-Hafiz (Arabic: أمين الحافظ, romanized: Amīn al-Ḥāfiẓ 1921 – 17 December 2009), also known as Amin Hafez, was a Syrian general, politician, and...
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Syrian Presidents Hafez al-Assad, in power from 1971 to 2000, and Bashar al-Assad, in power from 2000 to 2024. Ali ibn Sulayman al-Wahhish was the son...
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Neo-Ba'athism (section Bashar al-Assad's presidency)
launched by the neo-Ba'athist military committee led by Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, Ba'ath party's Syrian regional branch was transformed into a militarist...
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Major General Maher Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: مَاهِرُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Māhir al-ʾAsad, born 8 December 1967) is a Syrian former military officer who...
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coup d'état by the radical left-wing faction of Salah Jadid and General Hafez al-Assad ousted the Old Guard of Ba'ath leadership consisting of Aflaq and...
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the inner circle of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Shihabi was born into a Sunni family in 1931 in Al-Bab, Aleppo province. He attended Homs military...
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the works cited in Riedel 2008, p. 101 Hafez 2007, pp. 97–98 Al-Shishani, Murad Batal (November 17, 2005). "Al-Zarqawi's Rise to Power: Analyzing Tactics...
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Hafez al-Assad served as the President of Syria from 12 March 1971 until his death on 10 June 2000. He had been Prime Minister of Syria, leading a government...
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Corrective Movement (Syria) (category Hafez al-Assad)
romanized: al-Ḥarakah at-Taṣḥīḥīyya), also referred to as the Corrective Revolution or the 1970 coup, was a bloodless military coup d'état led by General Hafez al-Assad...
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Jamil al-Assad (Arabic: جميل الأسد; 1933 – 15 December 2004) was a younger brother of the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, and the uncle of former...
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"Farid Hafez". Haaretz.com. "Farid Hafez". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2023-04-15. Hafez, Farid. "What's behind Germany's raging Islamophobia?". Al Jazeera...
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Fall of the Assad regime (redirect from Fall of the al-Assad regime)
since Hafez al-Assad assumed power in 1971 following a coup d'état. As a rebel coalition advanced towards Damascus, reports emerged that Bashar al-Assad...
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Ba'ath Party between Aflaq and al-Bitar on one hand and Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad on the other. When Aflaq and al-Bitar lost the power struggle and...
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Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction) (redirect from Qotr al-Iraq)
president and Secretary General Hafez al-Assad. Until 26 October 2018, leadership was shared between his son Bashar al-Assad (head of the Syrian regional...
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