Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syria's ousted president Bashar ... taking office in 2000 and succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1971 to 2000. Although Russia accepted his asylum ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday ... to "console" their daughter and son-in-law. Assad and his wife have three children: Hafez, the PhD student, Zein and Karim. A 2022 US State ...