{"id":37145,"date":"2019-03-24T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37145"},"modified":"2019-03-24T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:23:11","slug":"stopping-israeli-escalation-in-jerusalem-promoting-regional-security-vital-egypt-jordan-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37145","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Israeli escalation in Jerusalem, promoting regional security vital: Egypt, Jordan, Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: The Arab League said Sunday it was not planning to discuss reinstating Syria&#8217;s membership at a summit later this month, more than eight years after suspending it as the country descended into war.<br \/>The pan-Arab bloc, which is set to hold its annual summit in Tunisia on March 31, froze Syria&#8217;s membership in November 2011 over a bloody government crackdown on protestors.<br \/>But several of the bloc&#8217;s other 21 members have recently renewed ties with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and some have called for Syria to be re-admitted to the league.<br \/>&#8220;The issue of Syria&#8217;s return to the Arab League has yet to be listed on the agenda and has not been formally proposed,&#8221; said the League&#8217;s spokesman Mahmoud Afifi.<br \/>He noted that the &#8220;Syrian crisis&#8221; however still tops the agenda, along with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the situation in Yemen and Libya.<br \/>Syria&#8217;s conflict flared in 2011 with anti-government demonstrations that sparked a brutal regime crackdown.<br \/>It has since drawn in regional powers, killing 370,000 people and displacing millions.<br \/>But the regime, backed by allies Russia and Iran, has since re-conquered much of the territory it had lost to rebels and terrorists, and now controls some two-thirds of the country.<br \/>Syria&#8217;s Kurds, which declared victory over Daesh on Saturday, control much of the oil-rich northeast, which the regime has hinted it may seize back in a military operation.<br \/>Earlier this month, Syrian officials attended a meeting of Arab states in neighbouring Jordan for the first time since the country&#8217;s Arab League membership was suspended.<br \/>Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir in December made the first visit of any Arab leader to the Syrian capital since 2011.<br \/>The same month, Egypt hosted Syria&#8217;s national security chief and top Assad aide Ali Mamluk.<br \/>The UAE also reopened its Damascus embassy in a major sign of a diplomatic thaw.<br \/>Arab states have also slammed US President Donald Trump&#8217;s call for recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a strategic territory the Jewish state seized from Syria in 1967.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: The Arab League said Sunday it was not planning to discuss reinstating Syria&#8217;s membership at a summit later this month, more than eight years after suspending it as the country descended into war.The pan-Arab bloc, which is set to hold its annual summit in Tunisia on March 31, froze Syria&#8217;s membership in November 2011&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}