The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a ...
Syria's iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that ruled Syria for more than 50 years. His absence during a lightning-fast rebel offensive ...
his sister Bushra, known as "the Iron Lady," along with her husband Asef Shawkat, a key intelligence figure; and his wife Asma al-Assad. As Assad flees, the united front once held by his family is ...
his sister Bushra, known as "the Iron Lady" and her husband Asef Shawkat, a calculating intelligence figure - and his wife Asma Al-Assad. But as Assad flees, their once-unified front begins to ...
Hafez al-Assad. After Hafez's death, the estate is said to have been inherited by Bashar's sister, Bushra Assad. Security forces, consisting of wounded Syrian war veterans, were stationed in the ...