Assad, Asma al-Assad, is said to be battling leukemia, with doctors giving her a '50/50' chance of survival. The 49-year-old ...

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

The critically ill wife of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is reportedly unable to enter Britain for cancer treatment ...

The wife of the fallen Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad will not be able to return to Britain, where she was born and raised, ...

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

Asma Assad, the wife of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, is reportedly battling for her life against leukemia while living in exile. Sources in direct contact with Asma's British family told ...

For years Asma Al Assad, 49, was the face of female liberation ... in Syria in the same year he took over control of the country, after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who died aged ...

Asma and Bashar al-Assad met during her childhood holidays ... shortly after Bashar assumed the presidency following his father's death. They have three children together: Hafez, Zein, and Karim.

British-born Asma, who gave up a successful career ... al‐Assad was elected president in 2000, after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, with a 'startling' 97 per cent of the vote ...

Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma with their daughter Zein and sons Hafez ... torture more than 14,000 prisoners to death and precipitate the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, with ...