Jordan's monarch is traveling to Germany Sunday for spine surgery, Jordan's palace announced Saturday.
King Abdullah II, 60, will undergo surgery to treat "a herniated disk in the thoracic spine" at a hospital in Frankfurt next week and will return home after a recovery period of one week.
The statement from the Arab kingdom's Royal Hashemite Court said the king suffers from intermittent spine pain "as a result of parachute jumping during his years of service in special operations," and doctors advised him to receive the surgery as the pain increased recently.
