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Hafez al-Assad

President of Syria from 1971 to 2000

  • Fame67.5
  • Momentum3.2
  • Wikipedia59.4K
Source-basedStable
Lived 1930–2000, aged 70
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    86 languages
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  • Era
    1930–2000
    Aged 70
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    2016
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Anisa Makhlouf
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MotherNa'isa Shalish
Bassel al-Assad
ChildBassel al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
ChildBashar al-Assad
Bushra al-Assad
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Maher al-Assad
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Majd al-Assad
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SiblingJamil al-Assad
Rifaat al-Assad
SiblingRifaat al-Assad
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Updated 2026-06-08

Syrian president for three decades who ruled through coups, purges, and the machinery of a police state — remembered most for the Hama massacre and for engineering a family dynasty that held power until 2024.

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Last updated
2026-06-08
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Hafez al-Assad rose through the Syrian Air Force and helped bring the Ba'ath Party to power in a 1963 coup. He participated in a second coup in 1966, becoming defense minister, then staged a third in 1970 to seize the presidency for himself. He pivoted Syria's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union while painting himself as defender of Palestinians, fought Israel in the October War of 1973, and intervened in Lebanon starting in 1976. To maintain absolute control he built a cult of personality and crushed an Islamist uprising in a series of crackdowns that culminated in the Hama massacre, which…

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Hafez al-Assad
said · undated
Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland.
Hafez al-Assad
said · undated
Why should we not boycott the Soviet Union and its supporters inside the country? If we do so, we can force them to review their stand.
Hafez al-Assad
said · undated
Strike the enemy’s settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
— Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War [Oxford University Press, 2002], p293
Hafez al-Assad
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Death a thousand times to the hired Muslim Brothers, Death a thousand times to the Muslim Brothers, the criminal Brothers, the corrupt Brothers.
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Now attention6.2
Source confidence65.0
Completeness65.0
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Born
October 6, 1930
Died
June 10, 2000
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