Egypt’s foreign minister and intelligence chief headed Thursday to Sudan for talks with government officials facing deadly protests and calls for President Omar al-Bashir to step down over price hikes. The departure of Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and General Abbas Kamel to Khartoum was confirmed by an airport security official, ...
The United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus Thursday, an official said, seven years after it severed ties with Syria since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011. An official at the information ministry invited journalists “to cover the reopening of the Emirati embassy in Damascus today”. A ...