Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has fully recovered from breast cancer, she told state TV on Saturday, a year after it announced her diagnosis.
Since Syria plunged into war eight years ago, the 43-year-old former investment banker has taken on a public role of leading charity efforts and meeting families of killed soldiers, but has also become a hate figure for the opposition.
Activists and insurgents accuse Asma, born in London to a family from Homs City, of being complicit in atrocities they accuse the Syrian government of committing. Her husband's enemies have dubbed her "the lady of death" while supporters praise her as "the jasmine of Damascus."