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Kremlin denies reports: Asma al-Assad has not asked for divorce or return to London

2024-12-23 20:05:53Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Kremlin denies reports: Asma al-Assad has not asked for divorce or return to

The Kremlin has denied Turkish media reports suggesting that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, is seeking a divorce and hopes to return to London.

Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow earlier this month after a lightning rebel advance ended his family's 50-year rule.

In a statement attributed to Bashar al-Assad on Telegram, he later insisted that his departure from Syria was not planned, but that he had been forced to leave after his position at a Russian-controlled air base was "under intensified attack by drone strikes."

His family has long had ties to Moscow, with relatives having purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of property in Russia over the years.

On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also dismissed Turkish media reports suggesting that Assad had been isolated in Moscow, while his assets had been frozen.

"No, this information does not correspond to reality," Peskov said.

Russian state media has yet to publish any photos of Assad inside the country, suggesting that Moscow has been careful to keep him out of the media spotlight while attempting to forge ties with Syria's new leadership.

Born in the UK in 1975 to parents originally from Syria, Asma al-Assad, 49, grew up in Acton, west London. She left her job as an investment banker in 2000 to marry Assad.

In 2011, a few weeks before pro-democracy activists began taking to the streets of Syria, Vogue published a now-removed profile of her titled “A Rose in the Desert.”

In 2020, the US imposed sanctions on the Assads and some of their relatives, with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo describing the move as an effort to end the regime's "unnecessary, brutal war" against the Syrian people.

While her assets in the UK were frozen in March 2012, she retains British citizenship. Earlier this month, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, made it clear that she was not welcome.


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