It was revealed last month that London-born Asma al-Assad, the exiled president’s 49-year-old wife, has been effectively barred from returning to the UK after her British passport expired.

Meanwhile his British-born wife, Asma al-Assad, who was treated for breast cancer in 2019 and has been diagnosed with leukemia, will not be allowed to return to the U.K. for treatment, according ...

Imagine someone about to die, and they are starved first, denied even the dignity of a last meal," Al Hendi said. The atrocities committed at Sednaya were part of a broader campaign by the Assad ...

Two days after the Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad fled his palace, Moises Saman and I arrived in Damascus to witness the beginning of a profound reckoning. The Assad family had dominated the ...

nor to those of Asma al-Assad, of whose predilection to crystal embellished Christian Louboutins and Elie Saab gowns we were reminded when she and her hubbie hot-footed it to Moscow recently.

Syria’s fallen tyrant, Bashar al-Assad, fled to friendly Moscow after his regime was toppled by rebels two weeks ago. Waiting for him in Russia, according to close aides, was his wife, Asma. The pair ...

Rifaat al-Assad led forces that crushed Syrian revolt in 1982 Switzerland charged him with crimes against humanity BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader ...

Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug factories inside Syria. Damascus, the epicenter of Bashar al-Assad's web of control. Now his regime's carefully guarded secrets are being unlocked.

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one ...

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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, after thirteen years ...