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, the Telegraph newspaper also reported.

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,