The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% ...

Asma Assad, the wife of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad, is reportedly battling for her life against leukemia while ...

Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

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 and her husband, deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, are currently in Russia (file photo) [Getty Images] When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Russia over the weekend ... Several months after taking office, Bashar married Asma al-Akhras, a British-born woman who is known for being attractive and ...

Who is Bashar Assad's wife, Asma? Asma Asad, 49, was born in London as Asma Fawaz Akhras. Her father was a cardiologist and her mother a diplomat at the Syrian Embassy. She met her future husband ...

It was also the consequence of a deep-seated fatigue and cynicism with the ... THE RISE AND FALL OF BASHAR AND ASMA ASSAD With Syria’s people on all sides suffering more than ever, Assad ...

Asma al-Assad had her UK assets frozen in March 2012 amid growing protests against her husband's rule, as part of a European sanction programme that London maintained after Brexit.

Assad also increasingly entrusted key roles to his wife, Asma, before she announced in May that she was undergoing treatment for leukemia and stepped out of the limelight. When 2011 protests ...