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 ...

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

Asma al-Assad with her husband Bashar, who was deposed as the leader of Syria earlier this month - Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Bashar al-Assad’s British-born wife must not be allowed to live a “life ...

Asma al-Assad, the wife of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, has been given a "50/50" chance of survival due to her leukemia diagnosis, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday. According to the ...

Reem al-Kari and her cousin Lama are searching through dozens of photos of children spread out on a desk. Lama thinks she spots one with a likeness to Karim, Reem's missing son. Karim was ...

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 ...

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