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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 originates from Ali Sulayman al-Wahsh, Hafez al-Assad's father, who was born in 1875 and lived in the village of Qardaha in the coastal Syrian mountains. . The locals reportedly nicknamed him "Wahsh", Arabic for "wild beast", because he was physically strong and a good fight
The family had initially fled to Lebanon but returned to Syria in 2014 because they had no money, food or schooling for their children. Her husband was immediately conscripted into Assad’s army ...
The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of survival, media reports have claimed. ... The Assad family fled to Moscow as a ...
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.
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 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 ...