# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rifaat-al-assad
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:37:11.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rifaat-al-assad"
name: "Rifaat al-Assad"
slug: "rifaat-al-assad"
description: "Rifaat Ali Suleiman al-Assad was a Syrian military officer and politician. He was the younger brother of Hafez al-Assad and the uncle of Bashar al-Assad, who served successively as President of Syria. He is most famous for being the commanding officer of the ground operations of the 1982 Hama massacre."
tagline: "Syrian former military officer and politician (1937–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rifaathafezassad_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937-08-22"
deathDate: "2026-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.11612133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Rifaat al-Assad"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump