Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

The British wife of Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, has filed for divorce after expressing ...

In a report by the Mail Online, neighbours were quoted as saying Asma's father, a cardiologist, and mother Sahar, a retired ...

With the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, a global hunt is now beginning for the billions of dollars in cash and assets ...

Asma al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a “50/50” chance of survival ...

Asma met Bashar al-Assad through family friends as a child ... The Assads dining in Paris, 2010 AFP via Getty Images In March 2011, pro-democracy rallies and protests against Bashar al-Assad ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow ...

AFP via Getty Images Rebels stormed through ... 14 years of war and dissent, which Assad met with the same brutal and violent tactics his father Hafez al-Assad used to torture the country into ...

Asma al-Assad ... AFP via Getty Images “I don’t think I should have gone near the Assads,” Buck told NPR in April 2012, as she claimed that the Assad children she met during her reporting ...

She was once fawned over for her good looks and sharp mind, but is now seen as an accomplice to her husband’s cruelty. Claudia Cockerell on the fall of Syria’s first lady ...