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    The al-Assad family, also known as the Assad dynasty, is a Syrian political family that has ruled Syria since Hafiz al-Assad became president of Syria...
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    Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the...
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    Asma Fawaz al-Assad (Arabic: أسماء فواز الأسد; née Akhras; born 11 August 1975) is the First Lady of Syria. Born and raised in London to Syrian parents...
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    Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman, military officer and revolutionary who served as the 18th president of Syria from...
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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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  • Bashar al-Assad (Arabic: حافظ بشار الأسد; born 4 December 2001) is the eldest son of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad. Assad was...
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    Bassel al-Assad (Arabic: بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bāsil al-ʾAsad; 23 March 1962 – 21 January 1994) was a Syrian engineer, colonel, equestrian and...
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    late President of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, and Jamil al-Assad, and the uncle of the incumbent President Bashar al-Assad. He was the commanding officer of...
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    Maher al-Assad (Arabic: مَاهِرُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Māhir al-ʾAsad, born 8 December 1967) is a Syrian general and commander of the Syrian Army's elite...
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    president Bashar al-Assad. Ali ibn Sulayman al-Wahsh was the son of Sulayman ibn Ahmed ibn Ibrahim ibn Sulayman al-Wahsh. The al-Assad family lived in Qardaha...
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    is thus a member of the al-Assad family. His father, Rifaat al-Assad, a younger brother of the late President Hafez Al-Assad, was a powerful security...
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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 present...
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  • Asad (redirect from Assad)
    Hafez al-Assad, former President of Syria 1970–2000 Bashar al-Assad, current President of Syria Other family members include: Bassel al-Assad Rifaat al-Assad...
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  • During the rule of the al-Assad family and the Syrian Civil War, a number of prominent Syrian figures have defected to either the rebellion or to other...
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    Anisa Makhlouf (category Al-Assad family)
    matriarch of the Syrian Al-Assad family, which has ruled the country since 1971. The wife of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Makhlouf held the position...
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  • Assads may refer to, Al-Assad family Assads, Morocco Assad (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Assads. If...
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    Syria (redirect from Assad regime)
    minority rule to consolidate power within his family. After his death in 2000, his son Bashar al-Assad inherited the presidency. Since July 2011, Syria...
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  • seeking. Members of Al-Assad family who attended Damascus University Foreign Presidents who attended Damascus University Khaled al-Asaad – archaeologist...
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  • Commander-in-chief of the Free Syrian Army. A number of his family members were executed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Despite the similar English spelling of surname...
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  • Fawaz Akhras (category Al-Assad family)
    Syrian–English cardiologist known for being the father-in-law of Bashar al-Assad and chairman of the British Syrian Society. Akhras qualified in medicine...
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    Assef Shawkat (category Al-Assad family)
    death in July 2012. He was the brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, having married his older sister Bushra. He and three other top Syrian...
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  • Look up Assad, Asad, or أسد in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Al-Assad family is a Syrian political family. al-Assad or Assad (Arabic: الْأَسَد)...
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    traditional home of the al-Assad family, which has ruled Syria since the 1970 Corrective Movement. Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1970 to...
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    (currently Bashar al-Assad). For the past 51 years, two consecutive first ladies have come from the same ruling family, the Al-Assad family. "Syrian History...
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    Ba'athism (redirect from Assadism)
    Hussein, former president of Syria Hafez al-Assad and his son, the current president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. The Ba'athist ideology advocates the "enlightenment...
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  • Rami Makhlouf (category Al-Assad family)
    1969) is a Syrian businessman and the maternal cousin of president Bashar al-Assad. At the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, he was considered to...
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  • presidency of Bashar al-Assad is based on continuity from the Cold War-era policies of his father and predecessor, Hafiz al-Assad. Hafiz al-Assad was a strong...
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  • Atef Najib (category Al-Assad family)
    security chief in the city of Daraa, and is a first cousin of President Assad. He is known as being a catalyst for one of the flashpoints that ignited...
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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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  • Baqir Brigade (redirect from Liwa al-Baqir)
    mostly consists of tribesmen from the al-Baggara tribe that traditionally supported the rule of the al-Assad family despite being mostly Sunni Muslim. Though...
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