Here we introduce you to Syria’s Assad’s family and its most prominent members
Mirroring the turbulent history of Iraq, Syria has also gone through political and social turmoil since it broke away from Ottoman Turkey and two decades later gained independence from French colonial rule.
Since then, much of the state apparatus and economic life has been controlled by different family members. Born in 1930, Hafez al Assad joined the Syrian military as a 20-year-old. He wanted to be a medical doctor, but his family’s economic conditions could not allow it, and this pushed him towards the military.
Until 2000, he led Syria with an iron fist, suppressing rebellions by force and leaving a violent legacy to his son, Bashar al Assad, who emulated his harsh methods and repressed the Arab Spring protests in its early stages in 2011. The trail of destruction that Assad's police and armed forces left sparked a brutal civil war.
But after the two brothers met in Rifaat’s house, the younger brother decided to defer to the older brother, ordering his troops to pull back from their positions in the capital Damascus. In contrast to his brutality against Syrian protesters and his cruel policies during the civil war against opposition forces - which amount to war crimes according to many human rights organisations - at first, Bashar appeared to be a quiet, apolitical person. He began life as a doctor in 1988.
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