Adnan Kassar was a celebrated figure in the country's sports scene but tells Sky News how outshining Bassel al Assad was ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...