Arab League Votes to Readmit Syria, Ending a Nearly 12-Year Suspension
Briefly

Arab nations agreed on Sunday to allow Syria to rejoin the Arab League, taking a crucial step toward ending the country's international ostracism more than a decade after it was suspended from the group over its use of ruthless force against its own people.When Syria's neighbors and peers ejected it from the 22-member league in November 2011, months after its Arab Spring uprising began, the move was seen as a key condemnation of a government that had bombed, gassed and tortured protesters and others in a conflict that metastasized into a long civil war.
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