Asma al-Assad, wife of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, has filed for divorce and expressed her desire to return to the United Kingdom, reports The Jerusalem Post quoting Turkish and Arab ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Russia over the weekend, ending a nearly 14-year struggle to maintain power in his country amid a civil war that turned into a battlefield for international and ...

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 ...

I met Asma Khan when she was a guest on Top Chef. She cooked a thali meal for our contestants, which they loved. Asma is a ball of energy with a wicked sense of humor. She’s the auntie you would have ...

Asma, who holds British citizenship, has been declared by UK officials as "no longer welcome". In December 2010 and the following months, demonstrations against corruption, poverty and political ...

*This article was updated Dec. 9, 2024 at 6:10 p.m.* Asma al-Assad was always the friendly face of a brutal regime. The UK-born ophthalmologist married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000 just after he'd ...

London-born Asma was an investment banker before marrying Bashar al-Assad; she was once called ‘A Rose in the Desert’ before her husband’s brutal regime – and her own actions – put a dent in her image ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Media reports have stated that the wife of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has been diagnosed ...