Syria’s Bashar al-Assad receives warm welcome on Arab League return
by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6BT4N)
Assad is attending summit in Saudi Arabia after 12 years outside bloc over Syrian civil war
A smiling Bashar al-Assad has been brought in from the diplomatic cold in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, receiving a warm welcome to a summit of the Arab League.
Arriving on a Syrian Airlines jet, Assad took his place at the summit for the first time since the 22-member bloc suspended his country in 2011 after a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators that led to civil war.
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