Bloody red carpet: Assad returns to international stage with Arab League welcome
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Syrian President Bashar Assad was welcomed back into the Arab League for the first time in more than a decade, as regional states look to end the country's status as an international pariah.
The Biden administration and top White House officials have condemned the move, vowing to continue its policy of keeping Syria an international pariah and continuing to hold Assad accountable for his role in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians in the country’s more than a decade-long civil war. People inspect damage at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, March 7, 2014. (Reuters/Hosam Katan/File Photo) A poster showing President Bashar Assad hangs on a building, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Homs, Syria, May 23, 2021. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki) A man walks by a building destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Aug. 17, 2012. ( ) A diagram released in a United Nations report, Sept. 16, 2013, on possible use of chemical weapons in Syria shows markings and dimensions of warheads found in the area visited by U.N. inspectors. (United Nations/Handout via Reuters) Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.
One Syria expert told Fox News Digital the Biden administration has been sending mixed messages on its Syria policy in the last several years. The Washington Post quoted a senior Biden administration official in October 2021 who said it did not support Jordan initiating normalization after King Abdullah II spoke with Assad via phone. However, the official said the Biden administration will no longer actively work to stop countries from engaging with Assad, except when the law specifically requires it.
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