Damascus — In a remote corner outside Damascus, Syria, a now abandoned potato chip factory reveals one of the many dark but open secrets of the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad. A CBS News team ...

Who is Bashar Assad's wife, Asma? Asma Asad, 49, was born in London as Asma Fawaz Akhras. Her father was a cardiologist and her mother a diplomat at the Syrian Embassy. She met her future husband ...

The exact whereabouts of the deposed dictator's wife – London-born Asma al-Assad – is currently unknown, but Bashar al-Assad did confirm that he had fled to Russia, and his family are believed ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad released on Monday his first statement since the fall of his regime, recounting his final hours before evacuation and addressing the unexpected rise of the ...

This was President Bashar al-Assad's answer to mostly unarmed protests that began in 2011. Many who rose against Assad then, are still here. That's the Zidane family. Mohammed Saeed Zidane (in ...

bringing to an end more than 50 years of Assad family rule. The exact whereabouts of the deposed dictator's wife – London-born Asma al-Assad – is currently unknown, but Bashar al-Assad did confirm ...

With the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, a global hunt is now beginning for the billions of dollars in cash and assets the family stashed away over half a century of despotic rule.

After 24 years of dictatorial hold on power in Syria, Bashar al-Assad was kicked out on December 8. His ouster terminated more than 50 years of Assad dynastic rule in the Middle East country ...

As president, Assad cracked down on Arab Spring-era uprisings and waged a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Bashar and his wife, Asma al-Assad, long exerted major ...