Bassel al-Assad

Bassel al-Assad
بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ
Bassel al-Assad; بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ
	Bassel al-Assad, c. 1992
Native name	بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ
Nickname(s)	The Golden Knight
Born	23 March 1962; Damascus, Syria
Died	21 January 1994 (aged 31); Damascus, Syria
Allegiance	Syria
Service/branch	Syrian Arab Army
Years of service	1980–1994
Rank	Colonel
Unit	2nd Special Forces Regiment, 14th Airborne Division; Republican Guard
Commands held	42nd Special Forces Regiment; 12th Armoured Battalion, Syrian Arab Republican Guard.
Awards	Hero of the Republic; Order of Salahaddin
Relations	al-Assad family

Bassel al-Assad (Arabic: بَاسِلُ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bāsil al-ʾAsad; 23 March 1962 – 21 January 1994) was a Syrian engineer, colonel, equestrian and politician who was the eldest son of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and the older brother of (later) President Bashar al-Assad. It was widely expected that he would succeed his father as President of Syria until he died in a car accident in 1994.^[1]

^ "Bashar al-Assad: behind the mask". Financial Times. 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 11 December 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.

[1] "Bashar al-Assad: behind the mask". Financial Times. 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 11 December 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.

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