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Major General Maher Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: مَاهِرُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Māhir al-ʾAsad, born 8 December 1967) is a Syrian former military officer who served as commander of the Syrian Army's elite 4th Armoured Division, which, together with Syria's Military Intelligence, formed the core of the Ba'athist regime's security forces until its collapse in 2024.
The Assad family, c. 1993.Front: Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra al-Assad. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971, when Hafez al-Assad seized power and became the president of Syria under the Syrian Ba'ath Party.
Maher Assad is believed to have made it to Russia, via Iraq. "I don't think his loyalists supporters have enough power to go against the rest of Syria," Alrefaai said. Syria: The priorities
After 13 years of Syria’s grinding civil war, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, the dictator fleeing his country in the face of a sensational advance by rebel forces.
The fall of Assad marks a significant blow to Iran’s influence in the Middle East, dismantling a key part of its regional strategy. For over a decade, Tehran had invested heavily in propping up ...
But when protests of his rule erupted in March 2011, Assad turned to brutal tactics to crush dissent. As the uprising became an outright civil war, he unleashed his military to blast opposition-held cities, with support from allies Iran and Russia. He has fled to Moscow, according to Russian state media. Maher Assad
Amid the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024, the 4th Armoured Division under Maher al-Assad was one of the few loyalist units to attempt defending Damascus. These efforts were hampered by the chaos and general collapse of the Syrian Armed Forces, with 4th Division's second-in-command being killed during the Fall of Damascus .
The fall of Assad happened over the course of the last few weeks. "An armed rebel alliance charged across Syria over 11 days," reports CNN, ...