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Asma Assad, wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad, is critically ill with leukaemia and has a 50/50 chance of survival.

Earlier reports – denied by the Kremlin – suggest Asma al-Assad wants to divorce her husband and leave Russia for treatment ...

Asma al-Assad reportedly fled to Moscow weeks before her husband to receive cancer treatment, before the Syrian regime fell ...

The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of survival, ...

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.

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.

Turkish media reports have claimed that the wife of the former Syrian president filed for divorce and sought to return to the ...