*This article was updated Dec. 9, 2024 at 6:10 p.m.* Asma al-Assad was always the friendly face of a brutal regime. The UK-born ophthalmologist married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000 just after he'd ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one source ...

Former Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad is 'no longer welcome' in her UK homeland, the government has said — LOUAI BESHARA Once celebrated as an advocate of women's rights in the Middle East, Syria's ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian first lady Asma Assad has been diagnosed with leukemia, the office of President Bashar Assad announced Tuesday. The president's wife was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia ...

Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad is being treated for a form of leukemia, Syria’s presidency announced on Tuesday. Her recovery will depend on a variety of factors, including whether she receives ...

Bashar al-Assad’s critically ill wife will not be allowed to return to the UK for cancer treatment after her British passport expired, according to reports. The 49-year-old, born in London to Syrian ...

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from ...

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 control over a ...

Once celebrated as an advocate of women's rights in the Middle East, Syria's British-born former first lady Asma al-Assad has fled into exile with her husband, with UK officials saying she is not ...