Syrian President Bashar Assad's son Hafez has graduated ... out that the First Lady of Syria, Asma Assad, took part in the ceremony. She came to Moscow with a delegation at the special invitation ...

Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where Russia has granted them political asylum, a source in the Kremlin told the state news agency TASS. Assad was in Damascus on Saturday and fled ...

neighbours were quoted as saying Asma's father, a cardiologist, and mother Sahar, a retired diplomat, wanted to be in Moscow ...

As well as his immediate family, Assad is said to have been joined by translators, drivers and security guards. Other relatives are also believed to be in Moscow, including Asma's previously ...

Asma and Bashar al-Assad have three children – sons Hafez, 23, and Karim, 19, and daughter Zein, 21. Hafez, named after his paternal grandfather, studied mathematics at Moscow State University ...