Asma Akhras Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, poses for the camera on May 20, 2007 with deaf Syrian children, unseen, at the Arab Cultural Center in Damascus, where the children were ...
Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday afternoon that at least 1,429 people were killed in the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children — evidence meant to bolster ...
Much intrigue surrounds Syria's ruling family that has controlled the country for decades. Bashar al-Assad, the 47-year-old president, went to school to become an eye doctor and never seemed to have ...