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.

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

The Syrian foreign ministry ordered the suspension because two of the deposed president's relatives allegedly had passports forged at the embassy.

The wife and daughter of one of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's cousins have been arrested in Lebanon. They were detained at Beirut's airport, reports Associated Press. According to sources in Lebanon's law enforcement,