Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

Asma Assad, the wife of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad, is reportedly battling for her life against leukemia while ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% ...

The wife of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a fifty percent chance ...

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NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action about President Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of all but three people on federal death row.

Media reports suggest that British citizen Asma al-Assad wants to leave the deposed Syrian dictator and return to London as a ...

Facing a desperate manpower shortage, Ukraine is relying more and more on unmanned flying attack drones. The weapons are ...

Each year, scientists add thousands of new plant and animal species to the scientific record. We learn about three that were ...

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with author Mark Lilla about his new book, "Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know." ...

The Russian government is denying reports that Syrian President Bashar Assad's wife, Asma Assad, is seeking to divorce her deposed dictator husband.