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The al-Assad family, also known as the Assad dynasty, is a Syrian political family that ruled Syria from when Hafez al-Assad became the president of Syria in 1971 under the Ba'ath Party to the ousting of Bashar al-Assad on 8 December 2024. After Hafez al-Assad's death in June 2000, he was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Assad.
The al-Assads are originally from Qardaha, Latakia. They belong to the Kalbiyya tribe. The family name Assad goes back to 1927, when Ali Sulayman changed his last name to al-Assad, Arabic for "the lion", possibly in connection with his social standing as a local mediator and his political activities. All members of the extended Assad family stem from Ali Sulayman and his second wife Naissa, who came from a village in the Syrian Coastal Mountains.