Assad, is reportedly battling leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and blood, and has a 50-50 chance of survival ...

Earlier reports – denied by the Kremlin – suggest Asma al-Assad wants to divorce her husband and leave Russia for treatment ...

Asma Assad, wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad, is critically ill with leukaemia and has a 50/50 chance of survival.

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The Russian government is denying reports that Syrian President Bashar Assad's wife, Asma Assad, is seeking to divorce her deposed dictator husband.