The wife of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, has leukemia with a “50/50 percent chance of survival,” The Telegraph reported today.
Mrs. Assad’s condition is so serious that she has had to be isolated from others to prevent the risk of infection in light of her weakened immune system, according to the report.
The British-Syrian wife of the ousted Syrian dictator is currently in Moscow, where her father, Fawaz al-Akhras, a London-based physician, has been caring for her. Sources in direct contact with the family described him as “heartbroken” by her condition.
Al-Assad and his wife sought asylum in Moscow after his brutal regime lost its grip on power earlier this month after 13 years of a devastating civil war.
In May, the Syrian presidency announced that Mrs. Assad had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a particularly aggressive form of blood and bone marrow cancer. This diagnosis came after she had successfully battled breast cancer in 2019.