Asma al-Assad

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife and his children have made a rare public appearance at a charity fund-raiser in Damascus for mothers of soldiers killed in the two-year conflict, his office said on Facebook Sunday.

The writer of a controversial Vogue profile of Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad says she urged the influential fashion magazine not to run the piece as the Arab Spring took hold.

Syrians showed in elections this month that they support the government's policy of reform and a majority back the regime, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview broadcast Wednesday.

A flattering Vogue profile of Asma al-Assad, wife of Syria's besieged president Bashar al-Assad, has been removed from the magazine's website, as the government crackdown on dissent rumbles on.

UN observers have acknowledged that they face a tough task to firm up a ceasefire in Syria, as seven civilians were killed in the latest violence on the sixth day of a tenuous truce.

The EU on Friday agreed to sanction President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife Asma, along with his mother, sister and sister-in-law as the bloc tightened the noose on the Syrian regime.

Rebels and troops clashed in northern Syria as regime foes set their sights on the capital as the rallying cry for weekly protests on Friday, while the EU prepared to slap new sanctions on Damascus.

The White House said Tuesday the thought of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad chortling over his iTunes collection while his people were being slaughtered was "sickening."

A British newspaper on Wednesday published emails it claims were sent by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, allegedly revealing the regime sought advice from Iran on suppressing protests.

A British newspaper on Wednesday published emails it claims were sent by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, allegedly revealing the regime sought advice from Iran on suppressing protests.

Not so long ago, she was the darling of the international press, described as a "rose in the desert" and "a ray of light in a country full of shadow zones."