Asma was born in the UK and raised in Acton, west London. She is the daughter of Sahar Akhras, a retired diplomat who served as first secretary at the Syrian Embassy in London, and Fawaz Akhras, a ...

Asma was born in the UK and raised in Acton, west London. She is the daughter of Sahar Akhras, a retired diplomat who served as first secretary at the Syrian Embassy in London, and Fawaz Akhras ...

DAMASCUS/LATAKIA, Syria >> Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services for the first time since the dramatic overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad a week ago, in an early test of ...

But there was more bonhomie to come. In December 2002, Assad and his new wife, British-born Asma Akhras, visited Britain and met the late Queen and the then Prince Charles, before lunching with Mr ...

In the UK he met his now-wife Asma Akhras - a former investment banker at JP Morgan. They got married in 2000, the same year when Assad suddenly inherited Syria's dictatorship following the death ...

Highly personal mementos, such as pictures of the deposed president at his wedding to British-born Asma Akhras, as well as the bizarre images of him in his youth, have been found among his ...

Fawaz Akhras and his wife Shar Otri left their home in North Acton a week ago, their neighbours say. The couple are the parents of Asma al-Assad, who married the recently overthrown Syrian ...

Rather, the Assads – alongside Asma’s family, the Akhras – possess a large network of power and influence that stretches far beyond Syria’s borders. Their reign in Syria began in 1971 when ...

Asma al-Assad was born to cardiologist father Fawaz al-Akhras and retired diplomat Sahar Otri, both from Syria. She grew up in the leafy west London neighbourhood of Acton where the Akhras still ...

The parents of the former leader's British wife Asma Al Assad, are Fawaz Akhras, a renowned cardiologist, and Sahar Akhras, a retired diplomat. The Kremlin has since confirmed that Asma al-Assad and ...

Asma al-Assad, Syria’s now-ousted first lady, was known as the “Imelda Marcos of Syria” and is “much more cutthroat” than her notorious dictator husband — once demanding full editorial ...