Protesters in Syria have held a sit-in demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose ...

The appointment fills a key economic role as the U.S. and Europe look for commitment to women’s rights.

Bashar al-Assad ’s critically ill wife will not be allowed to return to the UK for cancer treatment after her British ...

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

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops stormed and set fire to one of the last hospitals operating in the northernmost ...

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 ...

Syrian-American Farrah Hassen writes that the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria begins a lengthy rebuilding process that will ...

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

Assad, the former first lady of Syria and wife of ousted President Bashar al-Assad is diagnosed with blood cancer, reports ...

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, ...

This is not the first time Asma has faced a health crisis. In 2019, she was diagnosed with breast cancer but announced she ...