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Crown Prince Chairs Board Meeting for Royal Commission for Makkah and Holy Places

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the second meeting of the Board of Directors of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and Holy Places. (SPA)
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the second meeting of the Board of Directors of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and Holy Places. (SPA)
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Crown Prince Chairs Board Meeting for Royal Commission for Makkah and Holy Places

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the second meeting of the Board of Directors of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and Holy Places. (SPA)
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the second meeting of the Board of Directors of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and Holy Places. (SPA)

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, chaired on Monday the second meeting of the Board of Directors of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and Holy Places.

The commission is responsible for achieving the vision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to improve all services and establishing a sustainable system at the Grand Mosque and the holy places

Monday’s meeting at the Safa Palace in Makkah discussed the third Saudi expansion project of the Holy Mosque in Makkah.

Executive Chairman of the Royal Commission for the Holy City of Makkah and the holy places Abdulrahman bin Farouk Addas thanked Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the Crown Prince.

He stressed that the commission will work on a number of issues related to the administration of the Holy Mosque, as well as transport and roads projects.

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Syria’s Leader Meets with Bahraini Diplomatic Delegation

The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
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Syria’s Leader Meets with Bahraini Diplomatic Delegation

The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa received a delegation from Bahrain on Wednesday and met with the Bahraini foreign minister, state media reported.

The visit was the latest in a flurry of diplomatic overtures by Arab countries to Syria’s new leaders after they overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning rebel offensive.

Like other Gulf countries, Bahrain had cut off diplomatic ties with Syria under Assad’s rule during the Syrian civil war, but it reopened its embassy in Damascus in 2018 and gradually restored ties with the Assad government.

Bahrain is the current head of the Arab summit, and days after Assad’s ouster it had sent a message to al-Sharaa offering its cooperation with the new authorities and saying, “We look forward to Syria regaining its authentic role in the Arab League.”