The wife of Syrian regime leader Bashar Assad has undergone a successful operation to remove a malignant tumor as part of her treatment for early-stage breast cancer, the presidency said on Sunday.
"Asma Assad continues her treatment against the malignant tumor," it said on its Facebook page.
"Breast surgery at the Damascus military hospital has been successful," it added, according to AFP.
The presidency announced in August that the first lady had begun treatment for "a malignant tumor in the breast that was discovered at an early stage".
Since then, the presidency's social media accounts have often showed her with a scarf knotted elegantly around her head, visiting children cancer patients, wounded soldiers, or attending charity events.
Asma, whose father is a cardiologist and whose mother is a diplomat, has two sons and a daughter with Assad.
