Asma al-Assad’s background in the UK Asma was born to Fawaz and Sahar Akhras in 1975. Fawaz is a London-based cardiologist, and Asma’s two brothers Feras and Eyad followed him into medical ...

Asma met Bashar al-Assad through family friends as a child, and the pair became reacquainted when Assad moved to London in 1992 to train as an ophthalmologist Western Eye Hospital. He would later ...

Asma al-Assad was born to Syrian parents but grew up in London before moving to Syria in 2000, the same year Bashar al-Assad became president. Dubbed the "Rose in the Desert" by Vogue in 2011 ...

Despite the UK increasingly stripping the citizenship of suspected Islamic State group members, it is unlikely that London will revoke Asma al-Assad's British passport. The UK granted indefinite ...

Dr. Akhras expressed fears for the safety of his daughter Asma al-Assad ... pounded for weeks by Assad’s loyalist forces, went to elementary school in Ealing, west London, where she was known ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow. Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a ...

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Lattakia, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad and Mrs. Asma al-Assad on Saturday arrived in Lattakia city where they visited the injured and the affected families due to the earthquake and inspected ...