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US criticizes Arab League readmission of Assad's Syria, says it won’t follow suit
Fp Staff •The Arab League voted Sunday to welcome back Syria, effectively concluding that Assad had won the war that has killed half a million people and displaced half the pre-war population since 2011.
Arab diplomats in Riyadh call for 'leadership role' in solution to Syria crisis
Fp Staff •Following discussions aimed at easing Damascus' isolation, diplomats gathered in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and decided that the Arab community must take the lead in efforts to mediate a settlement to the Syrian war.
Syria's return to Arab League is 'speculation', says Qatar PM
Fp Staff •Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 after president Bashar al-Assad ordered a brutal crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising
Iran hiding weapons, military equipment inside earthquake relief material to Syria
Fp Staff •Western intelligence source said Iranian flights started entering Syria since the earthquake on February 6. "We believe that Iranian militias have transferred huge quantities of ammunition, they have restocked quantities lost in prior Israeli drone strikes,"
Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia to hold summit in Moscow
•Encouraged by President Bashar al-Assad's ally Russia, Syrian and Turkish officials held meetings last year, in a move towards normalising ties between states on opposing sides of Syria's 12-year-long conflict
How China-brokered Saudi-Iran deal is good news for India — and the world
Air Marshal Anil Chopra •India’s relations in West Asia have their own independent standing. Clearly peace and stability in the region should be win-win for all, including India
US renews opposition to Bashar al-Assad normalisation after UAE trip
•The United States under domestic law rules out any assistance for reconstruction in Assad-ruled Syria without accountability for abuses
US, Europe demand President Assad to be held accountable for Syrian uprising
•Some 500,000 Syrian civilians have been killed since the uprising, and amid widespread suffering and the displacement of millions, another 10,000 died in the massive earthquakes that struck in early February
Putin to hold talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow
•In a statement, it said that the Syrian president had been greeted on arrival by Putin's special representative Mikhail Bogdanov and the Russian ambassador to Damascus Alexander Yefimov
Rescue phase after Turkey-Syria earthquake 'coming to a close', says UN aid chief
•UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, during a visit to Syria, said that urgency now will switch to shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care