LONDON: Asaad Al-Shaibani, the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has reinstated 21 diplomats who had defected from the former Bashar Assad regime in protest at its brutal crackdown on civilians during the civil war. Al-Shaibani met the diplomats this week at the ministry’s headquarters in Damascus and signed an agreement to reinstate them to the ministry’s staff.

LONDON: Asaad Al-Shaibani, the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has reinstated 21 diplomats who had defected from the former Bashar Assad regime in protest at its brutal…

LONDON: Officers who deserted the Syrian army under the regime of the former president, Bashar Assad, in protest against its brutal crackdown on civilians during the civil war…