Assad, the wife of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is reportedly fighting leukemia, a serious blood cancer. She is said to have a 50-50 chance of survival. Asma is currently isolated to protect her from infections while undergoing treatment,

Bashar al-Assad and his family fled Syria on December 8 following an 11-day rebel offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), after years of civil war triggered by his violent crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011. The conflict has claimed the lives of over 500,000 people and displaced more than half of the country's population.

Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was titled "A Rose in the Desert," and in the words of Joan Juliet Buck, the writer, Asma was "the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies".

Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a bombshell report on Saturday that Asma al-Assad,

Assad’s British wife is reportedly planning to divorce him and move back to the UK. The Assads fled to Russia earlier in December after their regime in Syria was finally toppled during an offensive the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) forces.