Bashar Assad's Wife Files for Divorce: Reports

Asma Assad is also reportedly pursuing a move back to the UK

By Evann Gastaldo

Posted Dec 23, 2024 1:00 AM CST

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Bashar al-Assad's Wife Files for Divorce: Reports — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, left, and his wife Asma are greeted by Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair outside his residence at 10 Downing Street, London, Dec.16, 2002, on the start of their official visit to Britain. (AP Photo/Max Nash, File)

Bashar Assad's wife has filed to divorce the deposed Syrian president, according to Turkish and Arab reports cited by the Jerusalem Post. Asma Assad is currently in Moscow, where her husband has been granted asylum, NDTV reports. But according to the reports cited by the Post, she is looking to leave Russia and return to London, where she was born and raised. She has dual citizenship in the UK and Syria and moved to Syria in 2000 at age 25, the same year she married her husband. Per NDTV, Asma Assad wants the couple's three children with her in London.

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