The Assad family has not commented on these allegations, while the Kremlin has denied them. In 2011, American Vogue published an interview with Asma. It described her as “a rose in the desert ...

the same year Bashar al-Assad became president. Dubbed the "Rose in the Desert" by Vogue in 2011, she "quickly became an international pariah as she stood by her husband" during the atrocities of ...