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British MPs call for Assad's wife to lose citizenship

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaking next to his wife Asma in the capital Damascus. (Photo: AFP)

UK lawmakers are calling on the government to strip Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife of her British citizenship, for supporting her husband's regime during the country's ongoing war.

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