The Arab League welcomed Syria's President Bashar Assad back to the fold at a summit hosted by Saudi Arabia, signaling his regional political isolation was ending despite a horrific war that's lasted more than a dozen years.
Thousands protested in cities across Syria against the normalization of relations between Assad's brutal government and the intergovernmental pan-Arab organization of 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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