Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...

Some Syrian regime officials believed to have entered Lebanon with fake identification; ousted president and brother most ...

Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was titled "A Rose in the Desert," and in the words of Joan ...

Assad’s wife Asma has been effectively barred from returning to the UK. The 49-year-old – who was born in London – will be unable to return home as her passport has ...

Asma al-Assad grew up in Acton, west London and, after attending a private girls' school, graduated from King's College ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

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 ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% ...

In the early months of 2017, two Americans traveled to Syria where they met separately with that country's dictator, Bashar ...

Ministers have been urged not to let the British wife of deposed Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad come back to the UK amid ...

When, aged 25, Asma Akhras swapped pursuing an MBA at Harvard for marrying a meek-looking ex-ophthalmology student named ...