London-born Asma was an investment banker before marrying Bashar al-Assad; she was once called ... people”, Asma was called “Syria’s Princess Diana”. In a profile on Sky News, Asma ...

What must Asma al-Assad be thinking right now ... and proceeded gradually to morph from being Syria’s equivalent of Princess Diana into its Marie Antoinette. Asma cannot invoke a deprived ...

Asma would not have foreseen such a life back in 1994 when she was studying computer science and met the young eye doctor, Bashar al-Assad, who was a family friend and furthering his training in ...

Asma al-Assad, Syria’s now-ousted first lady, was known as the “Imelda Marcos of Syria” and is “much more cutthroat” than her notorious dictator husband — once demanding full editorial ...

Asma al-Assad moved to Syria in 2000 and married Assad in the same year at the age of 25. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma al-Assad (L) attend the opening ceremony of the ...