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Jordan’s Abdullah receives first call from Syria’s Assad since start of conflict (Middle East Eye)

Jordan‘s King Abdullah II received a phone call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in what officials said was the first such communication since the start of the conflict in Syria a decade ago.

The conversation, announced by the royal palace on Sunday, was the latest step in a recent normalisation of ties between leaders who had long been on opposing sides in Syria’s civil war, with Jordan supporting Syrian Western-backed mainstream rebels seeking to drive Assad from power.

Jordan’s Abdullah receives first call from Syria’s Assad since start of conflict | Middle East Eye