Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez al-Assad, founder of the regime, battled the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s.
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In 1982, Hafez Assad brutally ended an uprising in the Syrian city of Hama.
President Hafez Assad said publicly that Mr Barak was a man he could do business with.
The 45-year-old president inherited power from his father, Hafez, in 2000, after three decades of authoritarian rule.
When Hafez Assad died after three decades as president of Syria, power passed smoothly to his son Bashar.
Assad has ruled since 2000, taking over from his father Hafez, who seized power in a 1970 coup.
Al-Assad and his late father, Hafez, before him have run Syria for decades.
But the death of Hafez Assad, Syria's president for 30 years, has left Lebanon with a distracted backer at best.
The Tlas family has been part of the Syrian power structure during the tenure of Bashar and his father, Hafez Assad.
As a young man, he was part of a failed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against that country's dictator, Hafez al-Assad.
The Clinton Administration now appears poised to make the same mistake with respect to an even more dangerous actor: Hafez Assad.
Political life is also less stifled than it was during the 30-year rule of Hafez Assad, who died four years ago.
Toadying to the Syrian version of Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad a far smarter and more dangerous actor than the Iraqi despot.
He was go-between for the Clinton administration when it was dealing with President Hafez Assad of Syria and the Palestinians' Yasser Arafat.
Yet Syria is simply not strong enough, any more, to play the spoiler the way his father, Hafez, did in the past.
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Toadying to the Syrian version of Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad -- a far smarter and more dangerous actor than the Iraqi despot.
Such injunctions notwithstanding, the local media have retained the cloying adulation of his father's day, simply substituting the name Bashar for Hafez.
Along with his internal prestige, Hafez Assad's international influence was draining away.
Some liken the situation to the early 1980s, a tumultuous period of bombs and assassinations that Mr Assad's father, Hafez, outlived through ruthlessness.
In 2001, after a brief breathing space following Hafez Assad's death known as the Damascus Spring, the new president clamped down on dissent.
Government official Abdel-Rashid Abdel Hafez said Mr Mansour Hadi had contacted his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to demand Tehran stop smuggling in weapons.
Also, the Egyptian leader said he would meet with Syrian President Hafez Assad and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, although he gave no timetable.
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In life and in death, the Kim Jong Ils and Hafez Assads get more respectful, even celebratory press than the world's elected leaders.
Mr Turk, who is now more than 70, spent more than 17 years in jail for his opposition to the late president Hafez al-Assad.
Through Mr Mubarak, Mr Demirel delivered to Syria's President Hafez Assad a menu of demands so unpalatable that the Arabs assumed Turkey wanted war.
For four months he begged Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to accept the Golan Heights, stopping only after Assad harshly rebuffed him in March 2000.
In Syria, the elder totalitarian ruler Hafez Assad was replaced upon his death in 2000 by his son, the current totalitarian ruler, President Bashar Assad.
Its ruler, Hafez Assad, was prepared to postpone getting back a chunk of his land in order to continue to lead the anti-Israel, anti-compromise, front.
Second, it will alleviate pressure on the military police state of Hafez Assad to engage in systemic economic reforms to say nothing of political liberalization.
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