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In response to the increasing efforts of some Arab countries to normalize relations with the Assad regime, Qatar said its position has not changed, according to al-Souria Net.
The U.S. and global withdrawal from Syria encouraged Arab countries and Turkey to look for an alternative mechanism to resolve the Syrian crisis, according to Bassam Barabandi.
It is shameful that any Arab country rolls the red carpet for Bashar al-Assad, says Ghazi Dahman, in an op-ed for al-Araby al-Jadeed.
The Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Mohammed Al-Halbousi, called for increasing regional cooperation and coordination, according to al-Watan.
Your daily brief of the English-speaking press on Syria.
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.
Your daily brief of the English-speaking press on Syria.
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.
