KSrelief, UN University for Peace Sign Cooperation Program

Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of KSrelief Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and UN University for Peace Permanent Observer David Fernández Puyana sign the program in Riyadh. (SPA)
Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of KSrelief Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and UN University for Peace Permanent Observer David Fernández Puyana sign the program in Riyadh. (SPA)
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KSrelief, UN University for Peace Sign Cooperation Program

Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of KSrelief Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and UN University for Peace Permanent Observer David Fernández Puyana sign the program in Riyadh. (SPA)
Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of KSrelief Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and UN University for Peace Permanent Observer David Fernández Puyana sign the program in Riyadh. (SPA)

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) and the UN University for Peace signed on Sunday a cooperation program that covers several fields, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of KSrelief Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and UN University for Peace Permanent Observer David Fernández Puyana signed the program at the center's headquarters in Riyadh.

Under the program, a cooperation and partnership framework will be established between the two sides in the educational and training programs, building capacity, preparing studies and research in the humanitarian work field.

They will exchange invitations to participate in conferences, symposiums and exhibitions on humanitarian and relief affairs.

This is part of strategic partnerships by KSrelief with international and regional institutions to boost cooperation and develop the institutional work infrastructure in the center in a way that serves humanitarian work.



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.”