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 taken over power in Syria from his late father.

Media reports have stated that the wife of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has been diagnosed with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of surviving, as she attempts to return to the UK.

The Instagram account of Bashar Assad's wife is adorned with tender snapshots: Asma Assad reading to Syrian children; holding an infant inside a maternity hospital in Damascus; embracing the family of ...

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 ...

Bashar al-Assad, along with his family, fled Syria on December 8. Asma al-Assad, wife of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is reportedly battling leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the bone ...

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators. Syria’s ...

Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown after 13 years of brutal civil conflict in Syria, bringing to an end more than 50 years of Assad family rule. The exact whereabouts of the deposed dictator's wife – ...

Last month, the BBC launched The Global Story podcast, hosted by Tristan Redman and Asma Khalid. The podcast, which is available weekday mornings at 5 a.m. ET, explores the complex relationship ...