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 Bashar's secretary.

Bushra al-Assad, 64, was once considered one of the most eligible women in Damascus. After falling in love with Shawkat she annulled her engagement to Dr Muhssin Belal, Minister of Information ...

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 ...

In 2019, the National Crime Agency reported that Aniseh Chawkat – the daughter of Bashar’s sister, Bushra al-Assad, who reportedly sought safety in Dubai following the Arab spring (2010-2012 ...

his sister Bushra, known as "the Iron Lady," along with her husband Asef Shawkat, a key intelligence figure; and his wife ...

Al-Moussa and his wife Bushra al-Bukaai fled Damascus in 2015 ... from Syrians while they consider if Syria is safer now that Assad has gone. It is not clear if asylum seekers will be forced ...

Hafez al-Assad rose to power in a coup on November ... Figures such as his brother Maher, his sister Bushra, and her husband Asef Shawkat played key roles in the regime's security and military ...

Al-Assad also appointed his own people to the security services, such as Assef Shawkat, his sister Bushra's husband, who was made head of military intelligence. Internally, the accidental ...