Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Britain-born Asma al-Assad is married to overthrown Syrian dictator Bashar as-Assad. (AFP via Getty Images) (LOUAI BESHARA via ...

Asma al-Assad, Syria’s now-ousted first lady, was known as the “Imelda Marcos of Syria” and is “much more cutthroat” than her notorious dictator husband — once demanding full editorial control over a ...

The U.S. government has long imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has presided over more than nine years of a civil war that has claimed the lives of an estimated half a million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as ...

Asma Assad, the wife of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, is reportedly battling for her life against leukemia while living in exile. Her father, Fawaz Akhras, has been caring for her at the Assad ...

Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails reveal. A senior aide to Asma al-Assad, Fares Kallas, took issue with the site ...