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 ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that Asma al-Assad, the wife of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, filed for divorce in Russia. The claims, which were reported by Turkish and Arab media, were ...

Assad's exile in Russia is a life of secluded luxury and political irrelevance, where he is wealthy and secure but silenced ...

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household ...

The British-born wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, is said to be battling leukemia, with doctors giving her a '50/50' chance of survival. The 49-year-old and her husband ...

The wife of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has reportedly filed for divorce and is now begging to leave Russia after the two fled from Syria. Asma al-Assad, who along with Bashar has been in ...

Russia has denied claims that Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma wants to divorce the fallen Syrian dictator and return to Britain. Media reports in Turkish and Arabic suggested she wanted to leave her ...

Ms. al-Assad’s cousin and Maher’s daughter, Sham al-Assad, also appeared to celebrate her 22nd birthday with an extravaganza, ...

As Syria's crackdown continues--with Syrian security forces releasing 300 people detained in the coastal city of Banias today even as army tanks shelled the central city of Homs--the British press is ...

Asma Akhras Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, poses for the camera on May 20, 2007 with deaf Syrian children, unseen, at the Arab Cultural Center in Damascus, where the children were ...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday afternoon that at least 1,429 people were killed in the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children — evidence meant to bolster ...