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 ...

How did Asma and Bashar al-Assad meet? Asma and Bashar al-Assad met during her childhood holidays in Syria, as her family frequently visited from the UK. Their relationship deepened when Bashar ...

Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...

Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist ...

I spent my childhood summers being driven from Lebanon ... After all, his heir, Bashar al-Assad, was a doctor trained in ophthalmology in London — the birthplace of the Spice Girls!

It had been 13 years since those opposed to President Bashar al-Assad first hoped to follow ... was sending him videos she had taken of his childhood home, which had been commandeered early ...

People dismantled other symbols of Bashar al-Assad and his father ... with a degree in electrical engineering, according to a biography posted on the HTS government website.

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 ...