President Bashar al-Assad gets married

Originally published January 4, 2001

A match- making celebration was held earlier this week for President Bashar al-Assad and Asmaa al-Akhras. Miss al-Akhras is of a Syrian nationality who was born in Britain. She has got a baccalaureate in computer sciences from one of the British universities.

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