After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

Ms al-Assad has stood by her husband throughout the country’s civil war, which began in 2011, and has played a key role behind the scenes. The couple have three children Hafez, 23, Zein, 21, and ...

Bashar al-Assad’s critically ill wife will not be allowed to return to the UK for cancer treatment after her British passport expired, according to reports.. The 49-year-old, born in London to Syrian ...

The British wife of exiled dictator Bashar Al-Assad has been effectively barred from returning to the UK, reports claim. London-born Asma, 49 - said to have a "50-50" chance of survival as she ...

BASHAR al-Assad’s wife Asma has been effectively barred from returning to the UK. The 49-year-old – who was born in London – will be unable to return home as her passport has expi… ...

BASHAR al-Assad's wife Asma has been effectively ... Born in England in 1975, Asma is the daughter of Fawaz Akhras, 78, a consultant cardiologist, and Sahar, 75, a diplomat at the Syrian embassy.

Asma al-Assad was reported to have a 50/50 chance of survival while being treated in Moscow. ... Fawaz Akhras told the Beast that these reports were “false,” and also said of her health, ...

Asma was born in 1975 to Fawaz and Sahar Akhras, a Harley Street cardiologist and a diplomat at the Syrian embassy. ... Asma met Bashar al-Assad through family friends as a child, ...

Asma met Bashar al-Assad through family friends as a child, and the pair became reacquainted when Assad moved to London in 1992 to train as an ophthalmologist Western Eye Hospital. He would later tell ...