The Latest Breaking News from Asma

IN FOCUS: The number of young female ‘Neets’ – not in education, employment, or training – has reached its highest level in almost a decade. From the women who are intentionally ‘decentering’ work, to those who are finding it impossible to find a job that works for them, Katie Rosseinsky…

A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks

A former PR looks back on a career spent whitewashing ‘foreign baddies’

Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no end in sight

Afghan quake kills 2,000; Indian woman Asma, husband and daughter flee home in fear. Asma called Indian embassy in Kabul for help. She married Afghan man in India and they lived happily until Taliban overthrew govt. Asma, family living in tent, out of money & scared of tremors. Hopes Indian…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday for an official visit, accompanied by his wife Asma. State media said he was met by President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on arrival in Abu Dhabi on Sunday and received a canon salute as his convoy…

The long read: Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troubles

Sajid Saddique has not been seen since he left his home in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 2007, leaving wife Asma and three daughters fighting for justice and answers 16 years after he disappeared

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma visited on Friday survivors from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of northern Syria early Monday. Syrian official websites published images of Assad and his wife while checking on the injured at the Aleppo University Hospital, in their first visit to…