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Asma al-Assad

May 2021

  • People walking past campaign billboards of Bashar al-Assad

    ‘Mob boss’ Assad’s dynasty tightens grip over husk of Syria

    Country’s emergence as a mafia state leaves today’s election result in little doubt

March 2021

  • Asma and Bashar al-Assad.

    Asma al-Assad risks loss of British citizenship as she faces possible terror charges

    It is alleged Bashar al-Assad’s wife’s support of Syrian army implicates her in its crimes

May 2020

  • People walk in front of a billboard of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in Syria.

    Could Assad row with cousin tear down Syrian regime?

    Power struggle between Bashar al-Assad and first cousin sparks rare family fissure and leaves public aghast

August 2018

  • Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad sits next to his wife, Asma in a hospital

    Asma al-Assad diagnosed with breast cancer, Syria says

    Image is issued of president’s wife apparently undergoing treatment

September 2017

  • Damage at Al-Tah hospital, which collapsed after an airstrike in the Maarrat al-Nu’man district of Idlib

    Syrian doctors decry fresh wave of hospital attacks

    International community accused of ignoring attacks on medical facilities, with four hospitals hit by airstrikes in past week

April 2017

  • Bashar Al-Assad and Asma al-assad

    Asma al-Assad is a cheerleader for evil. Her UK citizenship should be revoked

    Nadhim Zahawi
    The home secretary has the power to take Asma al-Assad’s British privileges away from her. Considering the oppression in Syria, it would be the right thing to do
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    Could Asma al-Assad be stripped of her British citizenship?

    She was born in the UK and she’s no terrorist, but it is up to the Home Office to decide whether her marriage to the Syrian president is grounds for revocation
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    Home secretary urged to revoke Asma al-Assad's British citizenship

    Liberal Democrats write to Amber Rudd after British-born wife of Syrian president uses social media to support his regime

January 2017

  • Representatives of the Assad regime and rebel groups assemble for Syria peace talks at Astana’s Rixos President hotel

    Russia in power-broking role as Syria peace talks begin in Astana

    Indirect talks between Syria’s rebels and representatives of Assad’s government seen as test of Moscow’s power

October 2016

  • Asma al-Assad speaks to Russian state-backed TV channel, Channel 24.

    Asma al-Assad: from Syria's 'desert rose' to 'first lady of hell'

    Bashar al-Assad’s wife has spoken about her ‘pain’ at the conflict but few believe she can be oblivious of husband’s brutal regime
  • CORRECTION - Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma is seen at the Bristol hotel on December 11, 2010 in Paris.

    Who is Asma al-Assad? – video explainer

    Asma al-Assad gave a rare television interview on 18 October, saying she had refused offers of asylum for her and her children
  • Asma Assad is seen in s acreengrab taken from a video on the official Facebook page of the Syrian presidency.

    Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, says she rejected offers of asylum

    In rare interview, Syrian president’s wife tells Russia 24: ‘I’ve been here since the beginning and I never thought of being anywhere else’

August 2016

  • Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, talks to soldiers during his visit to the village of Maaloula, near Damascus, in April 2014

    The Guardian view on the UN aid mission in Syria: access at a high price

  • Bashar al-Assad

    UN pays tens of millions to Assad regime under Syria aid programme

April 2016

  • St George Wharf, London

    Panama Papers: a special investigation
    Assad’s London fixer uses offshore firms to hold luxury London flats

    Panama Papers reveal businessman linked to Syrian president invested in UK property after his name was taken off EU blacklist

December 2013

  • christmas present wrapped

    My very own Christmas gift to you

    Victoria Coren Mitchell
    Victoria Coren Mitchell: Fret ye not over presents for your loved ones. Follow my festive guide

September 2013

  • Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad

    The Syrian presidency's Instagram account shows the banality of evil

    A bloody civil war is raging across Syria, but you wouldn't know it from President Bashar al-Assad's Instagram account. Here is a sun-kissed world of kindness, charity and saintly leadership. Who do they think they're kidding, asks Jonathan Jones

August 2012

  • Roy Greenslade

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    How Syria's 'desert rose' became 'the first lady of hell'

    Roy Greenslade

    Roy Greenslade: Magazine writer Joan Juliet Buck explains her change of mind about Asma al-Assad, wife of the Syrian president

July 2012

  • Asma Al-Assad with her husband in Paris in 2010.

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    Asma al-Assad and that Vogue piece: take two!

  • Syria s first lady, Asma Assad, visits a

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    Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

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