What must Asma al-Assad be thinking right now ... Asma was secretly buying top-of-the range paintings, furniture, jewellery and Christian Louboutin shoes through intermediaries in Paris and ...

Asma met Bashar al-Assad through family friends as a child ... the Assads spending tens of thousands on chandeliers, gold jewellery and paintings amid the government’s brutal crackdown on ...

The European Union on Friday banned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s wife Asmaa, and his mother, sister and sister-in-law, from travelling in the EU, aiming to pressure him into ending a ...