Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who fled with her family from Syria to Moscow, has filed for divorce in Russia, Al Jazeera reports. The Kremlin denies these reports.

The case rests primarily on the mystery woman's visible body parts corresponding to high resolution verified imagery of Asma al -Assad, in lesser degrees of undress. A positive match was made ...

Four months into their life in exile, the Assad family is — mostly — lying low in luxury. Mr. Assad’s wife, Asma, and the two youngest of their adult children — daughter Zein, 22, and son Karim, 21 — ...

The Assad regime thrived on erasing memory. Forced disappearances, propaganda and violence weren’t just tools of control; they were weapons aimed at obliterating the past. Anti-regime ...

The European Union on Friday banned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s wife Asmaa, and his mother, sister and sister-in-law, from travelling in the EU, aiming to pressure him into ending a ...

Assad’s wife, Asma, had become a particularly hated figure. Rumors that she had started forest fires on the Syrian coast and confiscated houses there gave baseless but eloquent expression to the ...

AMSTERDAM, - Chemical weapons inspectors have been taken by Syria's caretaker authorities to previously unseen production and storage locations dating from the rule of Bashar al-Assad, who was ...

While committed to that deal, Kurdish officials have objected to the way Syria's governing Islamists are shaping the transition from Bashar al-Assad's rule, saying they are failing to respect ...

Syrian security forces arrested a former commander in the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad on Thursday for involvement in war crimes in Syria, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry statement said ...

Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria deserves a system in which no “single ruler makes arbitrary decisions.” Sharaa, once a feared ...

The airport had been shut down in November following an offensive by rebel groups against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in early December. In the months since the closure, Syrian ...