Source: Bashar Assad's widowed sister has left Syria for UAE

Syrian President Bashar Assad's widowed sister Bushra has left Syria and is living in the United Arab Emirates, a source close to the UAE government said on Thursday.

Bushra al-Assad, Bashar's older sister, was married to Assef Shawkat, the former deputy defence minister who was killed along with other senior officials in a bomb attack in Damascus on July 18. (Reuters)