Biography of assad family history
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What lies ahead for Assad and his family?
When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not only his 24-year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family ruling Syria.
Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez was president for three decades.
Now, with rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir-al Sham (HTS) forming a transitional government, the future of the deposed president, his wife and their three children is uncertain.
They are now in Russia, where they have been offered asylum, but what lies ahead for them?
Why did Assad flee to Russia?
Russia was a staunch ally of Assad during Syria's civil war and has two key military bases in the Middle Eastern country.
In 2015, Russia launched an air campaign in support of Assad that turned the tide of the war in the government's favour.
A UK-based monitoring group reported that more than 21,000 people, including 8,700 civilians, were killed in R
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Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
In this Arabic name, the surname is Assad.
Bashar al-Assad[b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer and dictator[1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in the Syrian Revolution in 2024. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the huvud Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000.
In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel al-Assad died in a fordon crash, Assad was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent. Assad entered the military academy and in 1998 took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon begun bygd his father. On 17 July 2000, Assad became president
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Assad family
Syrian political family
"Al-Assad" redirects here. For other uses, see al-Assad (disambiguation).
| Assad family عَائِلَةُ ٱلْأَسَدِ | |
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| Country | Ba'athist Syria |
| Place of origin | Qardaha, Latakia Governorate |
| Members | Hafez al-Assad Bashar al-Assad Bassel al-Assad Maher al-Assad Rifaat al-Assad |
| Connected families | Makhlouf, Shalish |
| Traditions | Alawites |
The Assad family 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 2024.[1] Bashar succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, after Hafez's death in 2000.
The Assads are originally from Qardaha, Latakia Governorate. They belong to the Kalbiyya tribe.[2] In 1927, Ali Sulayman changed his last name from al-Wahsh, Arabic for 'the savage', to al-Assad, 'the lion', possibly in connection with his social standing as a local mediator and his political activit