The Arab League has voted to readmit Syria greater than a decade after it was suspended following a bloody crackdown on road protests that led to civil conflict.The lifting of the suspension consolidates a regional push to normalise ties with Syria's President Bashar al Assad. The resolution was taken at a closed assembly of Arab authorities representatives on the league's headquarters within the Egyptian capital Cairo, stated Gamal Roshdy, spokesman for the alliance's secretary normal.The Arab League was based in 1945 and is a free alliance of practically two dozen Arab international locations which have pledged to cooperate on issues together with financial and navy affairs.Syria's membership of the league was suspended in 2011 as a civil conflict broke out which has led to...

CAIRO — Arab authorities representatives in Cairo voted Sunday to return Syria to the Arab League after a 12-year suspension, based on the group. The vote within the Egyptian capital got here days after regional high diplomats met in Jordan to debate a roadmap to return Syria to the Arab fold because the b...

Two oil tankers seized by Iran have been noticed off the coast of one of many nation's key port cities on the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Satellite photos present the Advantage Sweet and Niovi tankers anchored close to a naval base south of town of Bandar Abbas in Iran's Hormozgan province. It is the newest ship seizure performed by Iran amid tensions with the West over its quickly advancing nuclear programme, although it seems the 2 ships could have been taken for various causes.Iran seized the Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet, staffed by 23 Indians and one Russian, on 27 April because it travelled within the Gulf of Oman. Image: The seized oil tanker Advantage Sweet off the coast of Bandar Abbas Tehran claimed ...