Assad

[ah-sahd]

noun

1. Hafez al 1928?–2000, Syrian military and political leader: president from 1971.

Assad

/ ˈasat /

noun

1. Hafiz al (ˈhafɪz æl). 1928–2000, Syrian statesman and general; president of Syria (1971–2000)

2. his son, Bashar al (bæʃəæl). born 1965, Syrian statesman; president of Syria from 2000

Example Sentences

The film revisits two of the most contested moments in his career: his entanglement with forged documents purporting to show an affair between President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe — documents he discovered were fake before publishing his 1997 book, “The Dark Side of Camelot” — and his later reporting that questioned the Assad regime’s responsibility for chemical-weapons attacks in Syria.

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The Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011 with Assad's brutal repression of anti-government protests, killed over half a million people and devastated the country's infrastructure.

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Since Assad's fall, Syria's new authorities have worked to attract investment for reconstruction.

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It took 12 days for Assad's military to collapse and he stepped down as Syria's president.

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Since Assad’s fall, the new authorities have reported numerous major seizures of agon across the country.

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