Middle East | Asma al-Assad, the wife of the Syrian president, has fallen ill with aggressive leukemia

Syria presidential Bashar al-Assad with a spouse With Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with leukemia, says the office of the Syrian president. She has also previously suffered from breast cancer, from which she reportedly recovered in 2019.

According to doctors, al-Assad has an aggressive form of leukemia, i.e. blood cancer, the treatment of which also requires isolation from other people due to the risk of inflammation.

Due to his treatment, al-Assad has to withdraw from all his representative duties for the time being.

48 years old Asma al-Assad was born and educated in London before becoming Syria’s first lady in 2000.

At the beginning of their reign, Asma and Bashar al-Assad were considered reformists, and the first lady also graced the cover of Vogue magazine as a “desert rose”.

After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, however, in his public appearances, he has supported the Syrian army, which has repeatedly committed war crimes, such as killing civilians and using chemical weapons.

The United States has imposed sanctions on him, as well as other members of President al-Assad’s family and regime

In Syria, well over half a million people have died during the war, and millions of people have had to flee their homes.

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