Egypt promised more aid to Syria after earthquakes devastated parts of the country, in a sign of how Arabs states are rekindling ties with President Bashar al-Assad
WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains why Syrian earthquake victims were left to rely on local rescue teams with little equipment while their Turkish neighbors got professional aid workers from around the world. Photo illustration: Noah Friedmandevastated parts of the country
, in a sign of how Arabs states are rekindling ties with President Bashar al-Assad after ostracizing him for more than a decade for his brutal crackdown on opponents at home. In the first public visit by a senior Egyptian official in more than a decade, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told President Assad in Damascus that Cairo would continue to provide whatever humanitarian assistance it could to its fellow Arab nation.
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