Anisa Ahmed Makhlouf was born in the city of Latakia in 1934 and married the late President Hafez Al Assad in 1960. She had six children, Bushra Al Assad being the eldest, now deceased ...

The sister, Samia, emerges as the rebel of the family, like the real Bushra al-Assad, who was considered the most progressive member of the family and fled to the UAE amid the war. Shortly after ...

By contrast, the ruling Assad family had managed to swash away as much as $12 billion, much of it acquired illicitly, according to a State Department estimate that same year. Now that Bashar al ...

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 ...