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

Assad, has filed for divorce and expressed her desire to return to the United Kingdom, reports The Jerusalem Post quoting ...

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 ...

Asma married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000, and they have three children: Hafez, Zein, and Karim. Since the Syrian ...

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 ...

In a report by the Mail Online, neighbours were quoted as saying Asma's father, a cardiologist, and mother Sahar, a retired ...

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 Syria ...

Assad also turned to his own family. His younger brother Maher headed the elite Presidential Guard and would lead the crackdown against the uprising. Their sister Bushra was a strong voice in his ...

Assad also turned to his own family. His younger brother Maher headed the elite Presidential Guard and would lead the crackdown against the uprising. Their sister Bushra was a strong voice in his ...