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Assef Shawkat (Arabic: آصِفُ شَوْكَتْ, romanized: ʾĀṣif Šawkat ; 15 January 1950 – 18 July 2012) was a Syrian military officer who was the Deputy Minister of Defense of Syria from September 2011 until his death in July 2012.
Jul 18, 2012 · BEIRUT (Reuters) - The world saw only a handful of pictures of Assef Shawkat. Few knew what he really did, or what power he wielded. But any Syrian would have told you that President Bashar...
Jul 20, 2012 · General Assef Shawkat, who was killed in a bomb attack at the headquarters of Syria's national security bureau on 18 July, was brother-in-law to the President, Bashar al-Assad,...
- Robert Ewan
Jul 20, 2012 · Assef Shawkat was a close ally of President Bashar al-Assad and a key security chief. He was one of the four top officials who died in a suicide attack on the National Security Bureau headquarters in Damascus in 2012.
Apr 4, 2017 · Assef Shawkat, once one of Syria's most powerful men and the son-in-law of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, remained an accomplice in the ruling family’s brutality until his death in a Damascus bomb attack in 2012.
Jul 18, 2012 · Assef Shawkat, Syria's deputy defence minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law, was one of the pillars of the regime's security establishment before he was killed in a bomb blast...
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May 23, 2012 · Al Arabiya reported Tuesday night that Syrian officials had confirmed reports that President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law and former head of military intelligence Assef Shawkat was killed in a...
