Assad, heir to a decades-long family dictatorship, oversees a nation torn apart by a civil war that began in 2011, giving ...
Assad also turned to his own family. His younger brother Maher headed the elite Presidential Guard and would lead the ...
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 ...
The calculating brother-in-law - Asef Shawkat General Asef Shawkat was an Alawite military officer who married Assad's sister Bushra in 1995. He was initially rejected by the Assad family ...
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 ...
Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow first beamed from the television in ...