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Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad diagnosed with leukemia, president's office says

2024-05-22

[NEWARAB] Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with leukemia, the office of

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
announced Tuesday.

The president's wife was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia "after presenting with several symptoms and following a comprehensive series of medical tests and examinations," the statement said.

She will "adhere to a specialised treatment protocol that includes stringent infection prevention measures" and "will temporarily withdraw from all direct engagements" as part of the treatment plan, it added.

Acute myeloid leukemia is an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.

Asma al-Assad has previously been treated for breast cancer. In August 2019, she announced that she was "completely" free of the disease a year after her diagnosis.

Born and raised in the United Kingdom, although her family is originally from central Syria, the first lady is a powerful and divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
figure. She is under western sanctions and has been a highly controversial figure in the course of the 13-year Syrian conflict.

She was an investment banker before quitting to marry the then-newly minted President Bashir al-Assad, in 2000. She has since maintained a public role, promoting civil and charity groups, but has been accused of using her British education and Western style to try to mask the brutality of her husband’s crackdown on dissent.

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