Admin I Thursday, May 23, 2024
DAMASCUS – First Lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad, the wife of President Bashar al-Assad has been diagnosed with leukemia,(blood cancer) shortly after it was disclosed that she had breast cancer.
She was born in 1975 as Asma al-Akhras in London to the family of Fawaz al-Akhras, a cardiologist, her mother is a diplomat.
Asma studied in England, where she grew up with her parents but studied Arabic after her marriage to Bashar al-Assad. Her family professes Sunni Islam.
She is from Homs with a Circassian root.