ASMA ALASSAD

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s wife says she was offered a deal to flee Syria but rejected it The first lady said her husband’s foes had offered her the chance to flee in order to try to shake confidence in him, but she had not left Syria since the war erupted 2 Speaking in English, the UK-born former investment banker did not reveal who made the offers, but said the people trying to get her to flee had not been Syrian and that their offers were “stupid” 3 “I’ve been here since the beginning and I never thought of being anywhere else at all,” the mother of three told Russia’s state-backed Rossiya 24 channel in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.