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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]
His friend, trying to make sense of what looks like a map of the prison grounds, says he lost his own brother in Daraa three years later; he had gone out to buy a gas canister and never returned.
The Kremlin has sought to dismiss reports that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s wife is seeking a divorce, after the couple were forced to flee to Russia.. As his brutal regime in Damascus fell ...
Following reports in Turkish media, a Kremlin spokesman denies Asma al-Assad wants to divorce her husband and leave Russia.
Speaking to The Telegraph in 2012, Akhras drew comparisons between the start of the Syrian civil war and the 2011 England riots. [2] On 9 December 2024, the day after the fall of the Assad regime , Akhras was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for providing "support and facilitation to Bashar al-Assad in financial matters, sanctions ...
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]
The tomb of the elder Assad's wife was also burnt and destroyed. Ahmet al-Abdullah, a rebel from Aleppo who helped sack the mausoleum, said that while he had mixed feelings watching the monuments ...
Ayman Abdel Nour, a former friend of Syria's leader from their college days studying medicine in Damascus and the editor-in-chief of All4Syria, a leading independent news outlet, said Assad used a ...