Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Monday ordered his foreign affair minister to initiate procedures that would appoint a new ambassador in the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Tunisian presidency said, the latest Arab move to end Syria's regional isolation.
Tunisia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria nearly a decade ago to protest Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 that developed into war in which hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed and millions sent fleeing.
