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 is dying,” one source recently in direct ... she is being cared for mostly by her father, cardiologist Fawaz Akhras, who is “heartbroken,” the source said. She is so sick “she ...

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 ...

Several months after taking office, Bashar married Asma al-Akhras, a British-born woman who is known for being attractive and stylish. The two eventually had three children. The couple lived in an ...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, said earlier this month that Asma al-Assad “is a sanctioned individual and is not welcome here in the UK.” Dr. Akhras, her father, is a London-based ...

Asma came to Russia with her children before her husband did and her father, British-national cardiologist Fawaz Akhras, was taking care of her. In May, the Syrian government announced that Asma ...

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 ...

Before she was the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma Akhras enjoyed a privileged childhood in a terraced house in Acton, west London. The daughter of a cardiologist and a diplomat in the Syrian ...