Al-Hafiz Heads Syria
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Written by Islamstory
5th of Rabi' Al-Awwal 1383 Ah/ July 27th, 1963 AD: Amin Al-Hafiz became Syria's chief of state. He is a Syrian army officer and politician. He served (1963-65 AD) as chief of state in Syria's Ba'athist government but had to flee to Lebanon (1965) after radical Ba'athist military officers, led by Nurreddin Attassi and Hafez al-Assad, toppled his government in a coup. He moved his exile to Iraq in 1968 and was sentenced to death in absentia in 1971. Under Bashar al-Assad, who became president in 2000, Hafez was permitted to return (2003) to Syria.
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