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Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 October 1930
- Died
- 10 June 2000
- Conflict
- Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Black September, Yom Kippur War, Lebanese Civil War, Gulf War
- Place of birth
- Qardaha
- Place of death
- Damascus
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Hafız
- Family name
- Al Asad
- Father
- Ali al-Baghl
- Mother
- Na'isa Shalish
- Spouse
- Anisa Makhlouf
- Sibling
- Jamil al-Assad, Rifaat al-Assad
- Occupation
- fighter pilot, politician, lieutenant general
- Position held
- President of Syria, Prime Minister of Syria, President of Syria, Minister of Defense of Syria
- Citizenship
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Religion
- Alawites
- Awards
- Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria, Collar of the Order of the White Lion, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of Civil Merit , 4th Class (Syria), Order of Civil Merit , 1st Class (Syria)
- candidacy in election
- 1985 Syrian presidential election, 1971 Syrian presidential election, 1978 Syrian presidential election, 1999 Syrian presidential election, 1991 Syrian presidential election
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- SourceWatch List of Dictators
- educated at
- Homs Military Academy, Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Arabic
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
- military branch
- Syrian Air Force
- military, police or special rank
- general
- name in native language
- حافظ الأسد
- number of children
- 5
- place of burial
- Assad Mausoleum
- political alignment
- far-left politics
- political ideology
- Ba'athism
- relative
- Assef Shawkat
- replaced by
- Bashar al-Assad
- significant event
- attempted assassination of Hafez al-Assad
- topic's main category
- Category:Hafez al-Assad
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