A third child for President Bashar al-Assad

In its Sunday weekly issue the Syrian al-Iqtisadeyah said that Syria's First Lady Mrs. Asmaa al-Assad gave birth on December 16 for a baby boy, her third. The weekly did not disclose the name of the baby.

Al-Assad (39 year old) and his wife (29 year old) had a son in December 2001 names Hafez after his grandfather, the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and baby girl born in October 2003 called Zein. The Syrian papers announced the marriage of Bashar al-Assad and Asmaa al-Akhras in January 2001.