"They don't know exactly what it is or where it came from," said Ebrar's mother Safaa, who spoke to CBC through a translator from her home. Ebrar was born with encephalocele, a rare birth defect that caused her brain to grow outside her skull. I don't know what's going to happen next," she said about her baby's condition. "The surgery was successful for now, but we don't know anything." Five-month-old Ebrar, seen here at three months old, needed marathon surgery to put her brain back into her skull.

Source: CBC News June 12, 2017 10:00 UTC