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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.
Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, was born to an impoverished rural family of Alawite background and rose through the Ba'ath Party ranks to take control of the Syrian branch of the Party in the Corrective Movement, culminating in his rise to the Syrian presidency. [20]
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 ...
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite. [10] The Alawites are the third largest religious group in Syria, after the Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. [10] Hafez al-Assad and his son, former President Bashar al-Assad, belong to the Alawite sect. [10]
On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns. ... celebrating the stunning fall of 50 years of the Assad family’s dictatorship.
Now covered in ashes and empty bullet casings, the grand mausoleum of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family stood in the eyes of rebels as a symbol of the injustice Syrians endured ...
On the other hand, Al-Assad "declared the Alawites to be nothing but Twelver Shiites". [180] In a paper, "Islamic Education in Syria", Landis wrote that "no mention" is made in Syrian textbooks (controlled by the Al-Assad regime) of Alawites, Druze, Ismailis or Shia Islam; Islam was presented as a monolithic religion. [181]
The Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the largest and best-organised of the rebel outfits, said Syria was now free from the “tyrant” Assad. The rebels said they had entered the ...