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 ...
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 ...