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    Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician, dictator and military officer who served as the 18th president of Syria from 1971...
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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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    by Bashar al-Assad Presidency of Hafez al-Assad Foreign Policy of Bashar al-Assad /bəˈʃɑːr æl.əˈsɑːd/ bə-SHAR AL-ə-SAHD, also /ælˈæsæd/ al-ASS-ad; Arabic:...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 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, 'the memorizer; the (safe)...
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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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    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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    Syria from 9 January 1980 to 1 November 1987 under the presidency of Hafez Al-Asad. Enjoying full support of president Assad, Kasm tried to end corruption...
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    was appointed ambassador of Syria to the United States by President Hafez Al-Asad in 1974. The post had been vacant since 1967 when diplomatic relations...
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    al-Assad (né al-Wahsh; 1875 – 1963) was a Syrian farmer and tribal leader who was respectively the father and grandfather of Syrian Presidents Hafez al-Assad...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Sharaa was appointed as acting minister of information. In March 1984, Hafez al-Assad, then president of Syria, named him Minister of Foreign Affairs....
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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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    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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  • formed as a result of the 1966 Syrian coup d'état led by Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, which moved the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party into a militarist...
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    of Salah Jadid and General Hafez al-Assad ousted the Old Guard of Ba'ath leadership consisting of Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din Bitar; and dissolved the...
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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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    Ba'athist Syria (redirect from Asad regime)
    Alawite military officers. President Nureddin al-Atassi and de facto leader Salah Jadid were overthrown by Hafez al-Assad in the 1970 Corrective Revolution...
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    Salah Jadid (redirect from Salah al-Jadid)
    country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970, when he was ousted by Hafez al-Assad's Corrective Movement. Jadid was born in 1926 in the village of Dweir...
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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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  • Riad Mousa al-Asaad (Arabic: رياض موسى الأسعد, pronounced [riˈjɑːdˤ ˈmuːsa lˈʔæsʕæd]; born 2 February 1961) is a Syrian military officer and politician...
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    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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    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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