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Her husband spends his time killing his people - including young children - with chemical warfare.

But Asma Assad prefers posting cute photos of herself cuddling little ones and supporting Syrian youths on social media.

The Syrian First Lady, 41, a British-Syrian dual citizen who was born in London, posts images on her social media account of an alternate life in Syria to the one shocking the world.

Asma often features on her Instagram speaking to children or holding babies in hospital as part of a suspected public relations offensive to contrast her husband's work.

(Image: Asma Assad/Instagram)

The photos have continued since her husband Bashar Al-Assad's regime killed 87 people in a chemical attack this month, with images of dead children rocking the world.

The Syrian President this week claimed the attack widely blamed on him was a 100 per cent "fabrication".

Asma yesterday posted a photo to her 120,000 followers of her meeting students at the country's National Centre for High Achieving Students.

She seems to like hastags, posting a tribute to herself ( #weloveyouasma ) alongside a pic last month with a baby at a hospital.

On March 7, she posted a picture surrounded by children with hastags that referenced children and the future.

US scholar and Syrian expert Andrew Tabler, who worked with the first lady between 2001 and 2008, told Fox News : "She is part of the regime's normalization campaign.

"It shows indifference and insensitivity at the highest level.

"I think she’s fully aware of what’s going on. And it makes your stomach churn."

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David Lesch, a professor of history at Trinity University in Texas, told the broadcaster: "It seems to me that Asma has assimilated into that alternate reality.

"How could she not? She has been part and parcel of the same environment as her husband, and therefore it is not a surprise that she has bought into that perspective."