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 ...

The Financial Times pieced together Assad’s final days and hours in power from more than a dozen interviews, including with regime insiders and people familiar with the family’s movements. The sources ...

Asma al-Assad grew up in London to Syrian parents. (Getty Images) Many recall her having very little interest in the Middle East growing up. "She was very English and seemed to want to have ...

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

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

The fleeing of the Assad family to Moscow ... Picture: Getty Images Throughout the Arab Spring, which descended into both a civil and proxy war, Asma strongly supported Bashar’s iron rule.

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 ...

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 ...

British-born wife of ousted Syrian dictator, Bashar, is being kept in isolation as condition worsens Asma al-Assad is severely ... MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images The disclosure comes after ...

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 ...

Educated, glamorous and independent, Asma al-Assad did not wear a veil like the wives of other ... jewellery and Christian Louboutin shoes through intermediaries in Paris and London - Getty Images Two ...