{"id":11913,"date":"2024-12-21T16:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/qatar-reopens-embassy-in-damascus-after-12-years\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:27:25","slug":"qatar-reopens-embassy-in-damascus-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/qatar-reopens-embassy-in-damascus-after-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar reopens embassy in Damascus after 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5297331.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>An AFP journalist saw Qatar\u2019s flag raised over the mission, making it the second nation, after Turkiye, to officially reopen its embassy since Islamist-led militants drove president Bashar Assad from power earlier this month, Arab News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, workers were busy sweeping the pavement, cleaning the area and removing graffiti from the building\u2019s walls. One of the workers had placed the Qatari flag at the base of the flagpole.<\/p>\n<p>Doha sent a diplomatic delegation to Damascus several days ago to meet with the transitional government. The mission expressed \u201cDoha\u2019s full commitment to support the Syrian people,\u201d a Qatari diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the European Union said it was ready to reopen its diplomatic mission in Damascus, while Britain, France and the United States have all sent delegations to the Syrian capital since Assad\u2019s overthrow.<\/p>\n<p>The French flag was raised over Paris\u2019s embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, although the country\u2019s special envoy to Syria said the mission would remain closed \u201cas long as security criteria are not met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225796\/Qatar-reopens-embassy-in-Damascus-after-12-years\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AFP journalist saw Qatar\u2019s flag raised over the mission, making it the second nation, after Turkiye, to officially reopen its embassy since Islamist-led militants drove president Bashar Assad from power earlier this month, Arab News reports. Earlier on Saturday, workers were busy sweeping the pavement, cleaning the area and removing graffiti from the building\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}