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"Asma is dying", British newspaper: Bashar al-Assad's wife's leukemia has returned, doctors have told her "50/50"

2024-12-25 20:48:46Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Asma is dying", British newspaper: Bashar al-Assad's wife's
Asma al-Assad

Asma al-Assad is seriously ill with leukemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a "50/50" chance of survival, The Telegraph newspaper reports.

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is being kept away from others to prevent infection and cannot be in the same room with other people.

Her father, Fawaz Akhras, has been caring for his daughter in Moscow and has been described as "heartbroken" by sources in direct contact with her family.

"Asma is dying", British newspaper: Bashar al-Assad's wife's
Asma al-Assad

Assad and his wife sought asylum in Moscow after his brutal regime lost control after 13 years of civil war.

Syria's presidency announced in May this year that the then-first lady had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and blood.

She had also previously been treated for breast cancer and in August 2019 announced that she was "completely" free of the disease after a year of treatment.

Her leukemia is believed to have recurred after a period of remission.

"Asma is dying," said a source who has communicated directly with a family representative in recent weeks. "She can't be in the same room with anyone [because of her condition]."

Another source, who has been in contact with the family in Moscow, told The Telegraph: "When the leukemia comes back, it's brutal.

"She has a 50/50 chance in the last few weeks."

"Asma is dying", British newspaper: Bashar al-Assad's wife's
Bashar and Asma al-Assad

Asma Assad, a 49-year-old Syrian-British national, is thought to have flown to Moscow for treatment sometime before the Kremlin persuaded her husband to flee in the face of rebel advances.

Her father, a respected Harley Street cardiologist, has been caring for her for most of the past six months, first in the United Arab Emirates and later in Moscow.

The revelation comes after reports that she is tired of the restrictions placed on her in Moscow and is seeking treatment in London and wants a divorce.

The Assads have not commented on the reports, although the Kremlin later denied that she was seeking a divorce from her husband.

This week, Robert Jenrick, the justice secretary, said it would be "an insult to Assad's millions of victims if his wife were to return to a life of luxury in the UK".

"Asma is dying", British newspaper: Bashar al-Assad's wife's
The Assad family

The Telegraph also reveals what the origin of the divorce reports is thought to be. Turkish journalists are said to have been tipped off by Russian diplomats.

Despite extensive Russian military and economic support for Assad from 2015 onwards to enable him to maintain his grip on power, personal relations between Putin and Assad are said to have cooled in recent months.

The two leaders have reportedly remained wary of each other, with Moscow frustrated by Assad's refusal to make reforms or engage with opposition groups.

Assad's defeat despite Russian security guarantees has now become an embarrassment for Putin, analysts and observers argue.

Its loss also means that Moscow risks losing the port of Tartus and several military bases in Syria, which have become the cornerstones of Russia's operations in the Mediterranean and Africa.

Ms Assad grew up in Acton, west London with her father, her mother, Sahar, a former diplomat at the Syrian embassy, ​​and her brothers Feras, 46, and Eyad, 44, who are now also doctors.

She studied computer science at King's College London before she began dating Assad in 1992.

Assad was not expected to succeed his father, but after his brother Bassel died in a car accident in 1996, he became heir apparent and then president in 2000.

The couple's outward image of reforming and Western-friendly rule was shattered when Assad brutally suppressed pro-democracy protests in 2011, plunging the country into war.

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