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Hafez al-Assad (1930 - 2000) was the president of Syria from 1970 to 2000. He was the leader of the Leftist Syrian Ba'athist party, but he had also close ties to Western countries. Assad was an Alawite. After his death, his son Bashar al-Assad took power over Syria.