Assad hosts Jordan FM for talks on earthquake aid

Jordan's foreign minister on Tuesday met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, vowing to continue delivering earthquake aid and to push efforts to find a political solution to Syria's 12 year-long conflict.

Ayman Safadi's visit to the earthquake-hit country makes him the first Jordanian official to do so since the start of Syria's conflict in 2011. It marks a new thaw in relations between Amman and Damascus and more generally between Assad and the Arab world. Last week, Jordan’s King Abdullah II had called Assad to express Amman's willingness to send humanitarian aid.