Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday thanked his “Arab brothers” for aid supplied following last week’s deadly earthquake, that saw countries in the region break with years of diplomatic silence.
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Some 120 planes laden with assistance have also landed in the country’s airports, about half of them from the United Arab Emirates, which restored ties with Syria in late 2018. At least 3,600 Syrians died in the quake, which came nearly 12 years into the country’s civil war — that has devastated swathes of the country, killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions more.
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