File photo - Syria's President Bashar Al Assad and First Lady Asma has told british TV Sky News they would welcome the Obamas to Damascus to push forward peace process. That was during posing first stone of an educational project in Damascus, Syria on July 2, 2009. Al Assad's comments are the latest in a series of signs that US-Syrian relations are improving after years of tension. Syria’s British-born first lady Asma Assad has begun treatment for breast cancer. The Syrian presidency posted on its Facebook page a photo of President Bashar Assad sitting next to his wife in a hospital room. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM