Assad also turned to his own family. His younger brother Maher headed the elite Presidential Guard and would lead the ...
Assad, heir to a decades-long family dictatorship, oversees a nation torn apart by a civil war that began in 2011, giving ...
Bushra Al-Assad Born in 1960, Bushra Al-Assad is Bashar's only sister and a trained pharmacist. Like her brother Maher, she is known as a hawk within the regime and plays a significant role as ...
In a report by the Mail Online, neighbours were quoted as saying Asma's father, a cardiologist, and mother Sahar, a retired ...
Georgina Deiratani, a Syrian Christian who has lived in Moscow for over two decades, says she is still in shock at the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad and his escape to Russia.
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and ...
Unofficially, Maher is also said to have led the Shabiha (ghosts), a regime-backed group of militias linked to Assad-sponsored brutality. Bashar’s only sister, Bushra al-Assad, reportedly fled ...