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Hace 2 días · Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman, military officer and revolutionary who served as the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000.
Hace 3 días · Hafez al-Assad’s takeover of the Baath and assumption of power in 1970 brought some change in the way Baathists treated the Jewish community. Still reeling from the 1967 defeat, ...
Hace 6 días · The Tadmur prison massacre of June 27, 1980, was committed in reprisal for an assassination attempt against Hafez al-Assad, then president of Syria and father of the current President Bashar al-Assad.
Hace 2 días · By 1969 the party was divided between a mostly civilian wing, led by Jadid, and a mostly military wing, led by Gen. Hafez al-Assad. The latter seized power in November 1970 and was sworn in as president on March 14, 1971; he was subsequently reelected with no opposition on several occasions, including a referendum on December 2, 1991.
Hace 4 días · The ministries and the main government positions are allocated according to strict, rigid sectarian and regional division, put in place by Hafez al-Assad. The storms of modernity and development messed up this division, placing Alawites in positions they ought not to be in, like the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense.
Hace 1 día · During the Cold War, whereas many moderate regimes such as Iran (under the Shah), Turkey, Egypt (since 1970), and Saudi Arabia were allied with the West, the radical regimes such as Libya, Algeria, Egypt (under Nasser), Syria (under Hafez al-Assad), Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Yemen, and the PLO leadership were allied with the Soviet Union.
Hace 4 días · A Syrian priest, whose appointment as archbishop was confirmed by Pope Francis on Jan. 7, shared the difficult times he spent being held hostage by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group and the importance of the “spirit of forgiveness.”.
