Beirut: The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad ‘s cousins were arrested on Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged passports, Lebanese judicial and security officials said.

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at the Beirut airport.

Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two Lebanese security officials said on Friday.