Asma married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000, and they have three children: Hafez, Zein, and Karim. Since the Syrian ...

Assad, has filed for divorce and expressed her desire to return to the United Kingdom, reports The Jerusalem Post quoting ...

Assad is married to a dual British-Syrian national, Asma, who was born and raised in west London to Syrian parents. She ...

Even the tombs of Hafez al-Assad, the family patriarch and Syria’s longtime leader, and his wife, Anisa Makhlouf, were desecrated in the attack. Rebel fighter Ahmet al-Abdullah declared, “God willing, ...

When Bashar took over in 2000, various members of the family – such as his younger brother Maher al-Assad, who served as a ...

Anisa Makhlouf – the widow of former president Hafez al-Assad – also retained influence. “Decisions are made collectively in the family’s inner circle, but Anisa has the last say,” said ...

The downfall of Syria's tyrant leader Bashar al-Assad has marked a dramatic end to over half a century of his family's brutal rule. Rebel groups, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, made significant ...

How a gangly eye doctor became a brutal dictator presiding over 13 years of carnage that claimed the lives of over half a million people ...

Hafez al-Assad's wife and Bashar's mother Anisa Makhlouf reportedly had a significant influence on the family, wielding enough power to decide on the ousted regime's strategies.