Buhayrat al Asad is a large lake in Syria on the Euphrates River. map of Syria, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Syria Geography of Syria Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... map of Syria, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Syria Geography of Syria Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define...
In 1973, Syria completed construction of the Tabaqah Dam on the Euphrates River upstream from the town of Ar Raqqah. The dam created a reservoir named Lake Assad (Buhayrat al Assad), a body of water about 80 kilometers long and averaging eight kilometers in width. Tabaqah Dam and Lake Assad from space, June 1996 The Tabaqah Dam (sometimes called the Euphrates Dam) is an earth filled dam nearly 197 feet (60 meters) high and 3 miles (5 km) long (located at 36°0′N 38°35′E) in Syria. ... Ar Raqqah (ﺍﻟﺮﻗﺔ; also spelled Rakka), city in north central Syria, capital of the Raqqah province, located on the north bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 km east of Aleppo. ...
The dam holds the waters of LakeAssad (center to left center of the image), a 50-mile (80 km) long and 5-mile (8 km) wide reservoir.
LakeAssad and the Tabaqah Dam have not only provided increased hydroelectric power, but the lake has doubled Syria’s irrigated land.
Also, the water levels within LakeAssad remain low due mostly in part to construction of the Keban and Atatürk Dams in Turkey, which have reduced the water flow of the Euphrates River in Syria.
Assad contends that he is opening his economy and preparing for a day he can be peacefully voted out.
Assad seems to draw a line between himself as a person and his attempt to perform his father's self-designated job of Arab spokesman.
Assad defended the pan-Arabism that his father relied on, though he described it today as more a feeling of connectedness than a desire for shared government.
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