The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of survival, media reports have claimed. Asma Assad is being isolated to prevent infection and cannot be in the same room as other people,

Earlier reports – denied by the Kremlin – suggest Asma al-Assad wants to divorce her husband and leave Russia for treatment in London.

Assad, the 49-year-old wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. And the future does not bode well. A source at The Guardian reports that Asma al-Assad's chances of survival are now only 50%. “Asma is dying,