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Syrian chief Assad's spouse suffers from leukemia

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May 2012: Bashar al-Assad and his wife at a polling station — Bashar al-Assad and his spouse Asma in a polling station (archive photograph)
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Asma al-Assad, spouse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been identified with acute myeloid leukemia. The mom of three recovered from breast most cancers only a few years in the past. Now the 48-year-old desires to withdraw from public life.

DAccording to the president's workplace, the spouse of Syrian chief Bashar al-Assad is affected by blood most cancers. After a sequence of medical examinations, Asma al-Assad was identified with acute myeloid leukemia, it mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday. In order to keep away from infections, the mom of three kids will endure particular remedy and won’t attend public appointments.

In 2019, Asma al-Assad, now 48, introduced that she had recovered from breast most cancers after a 12 months of remedy.

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Born in Britain in 1975, the previous funding banker was seen as a champion of progressive rights and the fashionable face of the Assad dynasty earlier than the beginning of the Syrian civil conflict in 2011. Asma al-Assad was as soon as described as a “rose in the desert” in a canopy story in US journal “Vogue”.

However, the ruler's spouse got here beneath criticism for her silence on the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests in Syria. Since the initially peaceable protests in 2011, which developed right into a civil conflict, greater than half one million folks have been killed within the nation.

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Asma al-Assad is the founding father of the Damascus-based charity Syria Trust for Development, one of many few organizations allowed to work in government-controlled areas. According to a report by the web enterprise journal “Syria Report,” the humanitarian sector in Syria has change into significantly worthwhile for folks like Asma al-Assad.

Sanctions have been imposed by the USA in 2020 in opposition to the spouse of the Syrian ruler and different members and supporters of the presidential household. The then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Asma al-Assad of turning into one of many “most notorious war profiteers” in Syria along with her husband’s assist.

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