Sudan’s president has become the first Arab leader to visit Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011. Syria was expelled from the Arab League after the Assad regime violently clamped down on the opposition. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was in Damascus on Sunday, marking the first time the leader of an Arab League nation has visited Syria since the civil war broke out nearly eight years ago. The trip marked the first time a Sudanese president had been to Syria since a 2008 Arab League summit hosted by Damascus. Al-Bashir has been Sudan’s leader since 1989, and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and war crimes in his own country.

Source: Egypt Independent December 16, 2018 22:41 UTC