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Poor little dictator's wife can't get her cancer treatment in London's posh hospitals

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 30, 2024
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Bashar Al Assad and Asma Al Assad attending a charity event in Syria in 2009. (John Wreford / Shutterstock.com)

Asma al-Assad, who spent years living in luxury while her husband Bashar turned Syria into a slaughterhouse, is now stuck in Moscow with an expired British passport and a leukemia diagnosis. Despite being born in Britain, she's discovering that…

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