The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
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 ...
Following the toppling of Bashar Assad, Syria's Turkmen community hopes the new country's new rulers will heed their call to ...
About the Assad family’s palaces in the area, he said: “There’s one for Bushra Assad, another for ousted Assad, and two more for Basil and Munzir Assad. Munzir Assad took his palace through ...
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 ...