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Assad was born Asma Fawaz Akhras on 11 August 1975 [10] [11] in London to Syrian parents Fawaz Akhras, a cardiologist at the Cromwell Hospital, and his wife Sahar Akhras (née Otri), a retired diplomat who served as First Secretary at the Syrian Embassy in London. [12] [13] Her parents are Sunni Muslims from the city of Homs. [12] [14]
The Assad family ruled Syria from 1971, when Hafez al-Assad became president under the Ba'ath Party following the 1970 coup, until Bashar al-Assad was ousted on 8 December 2024. [1] Bashar succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, after Hafez's death in 2000. The Assads are originally from Qardaha, Latakia Governorate. They belong to the Kalbiyya ...
The Assad family, 1992-93. Following the death of Bassel al-Assad in 1994, Makhlouf favoured Maher al-Assad, her youngest son and a Syrian general, as a possible successor for her husband. [4] Instead, Bashar al-Assad returned from London, joined the military, and succeeded his father as President of Syria in 2000. [4]
Who is Bashar Assad's wife, Asma? Asma Asad, 49, was born in London as Asma Fawaz Akhras. Her father was a cardiologist and her mother a diplomat at the Syrian Embassy. She met her future husband ...
Asma Assad is being isolated to prevent infection, newspaper reports have said. ... The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance ...
The Kremlin has sought to dismiss reports that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s wife is ... Born in the UK in 1975 to parents originally from Syria, Ms Assad grew up in Acton and quit her ...
Their daughter, Asma, married then Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2000. It was reported before the Syrian civil war that Akhras had influence on the Syrian president in domestic affairs. [ 7 ] On 15 March 2012, The Guardian published allegedly intercepted emails appearing to show that he was advising the Syrian president from the UK during ...
Assad's immediate family, wife Asma and their three children, were already waiting for him in the Russian capital, according to three former close aides and a senior regional official.