Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video ...

Before she was the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma Akhras enjoyed a privileged childhood in a terraced house in Acton, west London. The daughter of a cardiologist and a diplomat in the Syrian ...

The London-born first lady, once described as a "rose in the desert", is at the heart of the shadowy inner circle of ...

Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad has a personal fund worth more than £55m deposited in an HSBC bank account in London, The i Paper can reveal. According to banking sources this account ...

Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a ...

I t’s a safe bet that Bashar al-Assad will be judged by future historians to be among a handful of the most monstrous and murderous of 21st-century dictators. Yet it’s not impossible that had ...

Inside Bashar al-Assad's rise to Syrian president: From London eye doctor to tyrant after tragedy put him first in line to inherit throne as murderous dictator ...

Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad has £55m stashed in personal funds in a bank account in London, according to reports. The money is part of the £163m that Assad, his family and allies ...