Asma al-Assad has not filed for divorce from Bashar al-Assad, says Kremlin

Asma al-Assad, 49, was born within the UK to Syrian dad and mom in 1975 and grew up in Acton, west London.

She moved to Syria in 2000 on the age of 25 and married her husband simply months after he succeeded his father as president.

All through her 24 years as Syria’s first girl, Mrs Assad was a topic of curiosity in western media.

A controversial 2011 Vogue profile known as her “a rose within the desert” and described her as “the freshest and most magnetic of first girls”. The article has since been faraway from the Vogue web site.

Only one month later, Mrs Assad was criticised for remaining silent whereas her husband violently repressed pro-democracy campaigners initially of the Syrian civil conflict.

The battle went on to say the lives of round half 1,000,000 folks, together with her husband accused of utilizing chemical weapons towards civilians.

In 2016, Mrs Assad advised Russian state-backed tv she had rejected a deal to supply her secure passage out of the war-torn nation so as to stand by her husband.

She introduced she was being handled for breast most cancers in 2018 and mentioned she had made a full restoration one yr later.

She was recognized with leukaemia and started remedy for the illness in Could this yr, the workplace of then-President Assad introduced.

An announcement mentioned she would “briefly withdraw” from public engagements.