For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

Al-Assad ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000, and shared five children with Makhlouf, Bushra, Basil, Bashar, Majed and Maher. Makhlouf was born in 1930 to a powerful and wealthy family ...

Hafez al-Assad's regime saw the 1982 Hama massacre ... His brother Maher, sister Bushra, and brother-in-law Asef Shawkat controlled security and military operations. Economic control fell to ...