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Bushra al-Assad (Arabic: بُشْرَى ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bušrā al-ʾAsad; born 24 October 1960) [1] is the first child and only daughter of Hafez al-Assad, who was the president of Syria from 1971 to 2000. She is the sister of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Bashar al-Assad was born in Damascus on 11 September 1965, as the second son and third child of Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad. [ 19 ] " al-Assad " in Arabic means " the lion ". Assad's paternal grandfather, Ali al-Assad , had managed to change his status from peasant to minor notable and, to reflect this, in 1927 he had changed the family ...
Nizar al-Assad, is a cousin of Bashar Al-Assad. He was the head of the Nizar Oilfield Supplies company. He was sanctioned by the EU for being very close to key government officials and for financing Shabiha in the region of Latakia. [65] Fawaz al-Assad, nephew of Hafez, leader of Shabiha [96] Mundhir al-Assad, nephew of Hafez, leader of Shabiha ...
Asma Fawaz al-Assad (Arabic: أسماء فواز الأسد; née Akhras; born 11 August 1975) is the former first lady of Syria, married to Bashar al-Assad. Her husband was president from 2000 until he was overthrown on 8 December 2024. Born and raised in London, to Syrian parents, she holds dual British and Syrian citizenship. She became ...
The Al-Assad family is an Alawite family from the Latakia region (specifically Qardaha), which held political power in Syria between 1970 and 2024. The family has produced two presidents: Hafez al-Assad, former President of Syria 1970–2000 [2] Bashar al-Assad, former President of Syria July 2000 to December 2024 [3] Other family members include:
He is the son of Rifaat al-Assad and his third wife Line Al-Khayer, sister-in-law of the late Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, [1] and is thus a member of the Assad family. His father, Rifaat al-Assad, a younger brother of the late President Hafez al-Assad, was a powerful security chief and commander of the Defense Companies, who was ...
Their daughter, Asma, married then Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2000. It was reported before the Syrian civil war that Akhras had influence on the Syrian president in domestic affairs. [ 7 ] On 15 March 2012, The Guardian published allegedly intercepted emails appearing to show that he was advising the Syrian president from the UK during ...
The Assad family, 1992-93. Following the death of Bassel al-Assad in 1994, Makhlouf favoured Maher al-Assad, her youngest son and a Syrian general, as a possible successor for her husband. [4] Instead, Bashar al-Assad returned from London, joined the military, and succeeded his father as President of Syria in 2000. [4]