After filing for divorce, the wife of dictator Assad, Asma al-Assad ... who was formerly referred to as the "Rose of the Desert" for her grace and charisma. Asma is dying, according to a family ...

The Assad family has not commented on these allegations, while the Kremlin has denied them. In 2011, American Vogue published an interview with Asma. It described her as “a rose in the desert ...

Before she was the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma Akhras enjoyed ... Vogue magazine published an article headlined ‘A Rose in the Desert’, which described Asma as ‘a thin, long-limbed beauty ...

Asma is also a cancer survivor. The London-born first lady, once described as a "rose in the desert", is at the heart of the ...

Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad ... The announcement of Assad's diagnosis came as her influential NGO, the Syrian Trust for Development, was putting on its annual Damascene Rose Festival ...

Asma al-Assad was born to Syrian parents but grew up in London before moving to Syria in 2000, the same year Bashar al-Assad became president. Dubbed the "Rose in the Desert" by Vogue in 2011 ...