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Hafez al-Assad, the 18th president of Syria, died from a heart attack on 10 June 2000 at the age of 69. [1] [2] His funeral was held three days later in Damascus, and he was buried in a mausoleum in his hometown Qardaha in Latakia Governorate, beside his eldest son Bassel al-Assad who died in 1994.
Assad's younger brother, Majd, was not a public figure and little is known about him other than he was intellectually disabled, [27] and died in 2009 after a "long illness". [ 28 ] Unlike his brothers Bassel and Maher , and second sister, also named Bushra , Bashar was quiet, reserved and lacked interest in politics or the military.
Hafez al-Assad [a] (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician and military officer who was the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was also the prime minister of Syria from 1970 to 1971 as well as the regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of ...
The Syrian war has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million. As the uprising spiraled into a civil war, millions of Syrians fled across the borders into Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon and on to Europe. His departure brings an end to the Assad family rule, spanning just under 54 years.
A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad has died after a car accident left her hospitalized for four days, the president's office said Friday in a statement. Luna al-Shibl, a former ...
The war has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of the country’s prewar population of 23 million. The conflict appeared to be frozen in recent years, with Assad’s government regaining control of most of Syria’s territory while the northwest remained under the control of opposition groups and the northeast under Kurdish ...
60 Lebanese servicemen killed. On 1 February 2013, two Lebanese soldiers were killed, along with 1-2 militants, and six were wounded in clashes near the Syrian border which started after an attempt by the military to arrest an anti-Assad rebel commander, who was also killed.
Hafez al-Assad died in June 2000. He wasn’t immortal after all. His regime, however, lives on under the leadership of his son Bashar al-Assad.