Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as ...

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 ...

In her Vogue photograph she is beautiful, wrapped in a luxurious fuchsia pashmina. She’s very rich, as the story repeatedly conveys, a stern mother of three, a woman who tries to make it happen ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Russia over the weekend, ending a nearly 14-year struggle to maintain power in his country amid a civil war that turned into a battlefield for international and ...

Assad recently launched a second war - a battle of public relation First Lady, Asma Assad, is seen helping her country out with community service seen on the Syrian Presidency Instagram Account.

GAZIANTEP, Turkey—Last February, at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art evening sale in London, David Hockney’s iconic 1966 painting The Splash was sold to an unidentified buyer for a record price of £23.1 ...

Asma, who holds British citizenship, has been declared by UK officials as "no longer welcome". In December 2010 and the following months, demonstrations against corruption, poverty and political ...

*This article was updated Dec. 9, 2024 at 6:10 p.m.* 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 ...

ISLAMABAD: Asma Jahangir was a symbol of hope and resistance against dictatorship, oppression and tyranny, speakers said at a reference held in her memory by Sustainable Development Policy Institute ...

LONDON (Reuters) - She was supposed to be the gentler face of a would-be reformist regime. Now Asma al-Assad has become a hate figure for many. Syria's London-born first lady, once breathlessly ...