On Tuesday, Damascus International Airport, Aleppo, and Lattakia received a total of six aid planes from the United Arab Emirates, according to al-Watan.
The arab initiative was conceived at least five months prior to the earthquake, when Jordan received preliminary approval from Saudi Arabia to initiate it, according to Orient Net.
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Damascus has succeeded in breaking some of the isolation imposed on it regionally, Athr Press says.
The total number of aid planes that have arrived in Syria is now 174, with 71 of them coming from the UAE, al-Watan reports.
An aid shipment by the Italian government and the European Union entered through the Lebanese-Syrian border, according to al-Watan.
The February 6th earthquake exacerbated existing shortages in the country.
After the earthquake, Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi arrived to Syria on Wednesday in the first such visit since the Syrian conflict.
Marwan Qabalan wrote in the pan-Arab al-Araby al-Jadeed an op-ed about how this crisis could, if properly utilized, be transformed into positive political action.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, ordered $100 million for relief to those affected by the earthquake, according to Syria TV.
Photos showed Assad relaxed with a smile on his face most of the time during a tour of Aleppo.
Syrians in northwest Syria are left to fend for their fate alone at the height of the disaster, according to Syria TV.
While a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday, Ankara has resumed strikes on Tel Rifaat.
At least 2,300 people have been killed after two powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria.
A delegation of the Negotiating Committee met Geir Pedersen and representatives of the European Union, America and Britain at the Committee’s headquarters in Geneva, according to Baladi News.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Adel al-Jubeir met with France’s Ambassador for Syria, Brigitte Kurmi, according to Athr Press.
Sources told Athr Press that the improvement in trade between the two countries caries a political message.
Sources confirmed to Athr Press that Syria’s participation in an Energy summit in the UAE carries important political messages.
The press has been debating where and when the upcoming meeting between the foreign ministers of Turkey, Syria and Russia will be held
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar asked the opposition not to respond to provocations against them, according to Syria TV.
