In this file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, his brother Maher, center, and brother-in-law Major General Assef Shawkat (deputy defense minister in Syria), left, stand during the funeral of late president Hafez Assad. Syria’s state-run TV says Shawkat is among the dead in a suicide bombing in Damascus.

First published in the July 18, 2012, 8:56 a.m. edition

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