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Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani ... our brothers in Saudi Arabia." This is the first visit by a Syrian official in the new transitional government formed after Assad's ouster ...

Another Saudi plane loaded with humanitarian aid landed in Damascus on Wednesday as part of a relief bridge launched by Saudi Arabia for Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.