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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bashar al-Assad’s critically ill wife will not be allowed to return to the UK for cancer treatment after her British passport ...

BEIRUT (AP) – As Syria’s bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian ...

Asma Akhras Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, poses for the camera on May 20, 2007 with deaf Syrian children, unseen, at the Arab Cultural Center in Damascus, where the children were ...

Former first lady of Syria Asma al-Assad is reportedly eyeing up a move to her native London after she allegedly filed for divorce from her tyrant husband. The couple fled Damascus and sought asylum ...

The British newspaper the Guardian on Wednesday published a cache of emails exchanged between Syrian President Bashar Assad, his wife Asma and their close circle, shedding light on the dictator’s life ...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday afternoon that at least 1,429 people were killed in the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children — evidence meant to bolster ...

The wives of two United Nations envoys have created a YouTube video calling on Syria's first lady, Asma Assad, to "stop your husband" — President Bashar Assad — in his crackdown on a popular uprising ...

As Syria's crackdown continues--with Syrian security forces releasing 300 people detained in the coastal city of Banias today even as army tanks shelled the central city of Homs--the British press is ...

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad has started treatment for early stage breast cancer, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday. A photo published by the state news agency SANA and ...