Senior Arab lawmakers were in Syria on Sunday for talks with President Bashar Assad on bringing his country back into the fold of the Arab world. The visit follows a mini-summit in Baghdad that affirmed the Arab League’s intentions of having Syria return to the organization despite the country’s devastating civil war. Lawmakers from nine…
Senior representatives from nine countries, as well as Palestinian representatives, are visiting Damascus looking to end the decade-long isolation of Bashar al-Assad.
Parliamentarians from the UAE, Iraq and Jordan - as well as other countries - traveled to the largely isolated Syrian capital as part of an Arab delegation, according to Syrian state TV.
Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 after Bashar Assad s government cracked down brutally on mass protests against his rule an uprising that quickly descended into a brutal civil war.
JEDDAH: A delegation of senior Arab parliamentarians met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Sunday, another sign of thawing ties after more than a decade of isolation over the conflict in Syria. The heads of the Iraqi, Jordanian, Palestinian, Libyan, Egyptian and UAE houses of representatives, as well as representatives from Oman and Lebanon, traveled to Syria