Asma al Assad, who is a British citizen, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood and bone marrow cancer. According to the president's office, she will withdraw from public events.

The wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad revealed she was facing a second cancer diagnosis last week after she underwent treatment in 2018

Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer.

Unexpected news shocked the family of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad: for the first lady, Asma al-Assad, a bad diagnosis arrived Leukemia acute myeloid disease and canceled all

The office of President Bashar Assad has announced that Syrian first lady Asma Assad has been diagnosed with leukemia.

Asma, 48, would undergo a special treatment protocol that would require her to isolate, and that she would step away from public engagements as a result, the office of President Bashar Assad said in a statement Tuesday.

Syria’s first Lady Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with an aggressive blood cancer, known as acute myeloid leukemia or AML, which targets the white blood cells involved in battling an infection. Asma’s diagnosis comes five years after she was treated with breast cancer.

Asma Assad - the wife of Syrian warlord Bashar al-Assad - has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after being given the all clear from breast cancer back in 2019