Report: Damascus, Baghdad to reopen embassies

Well-informed sources told the Lebanese daily al-Nahar that a delegation from the Syrian Foreign Ministry has recently visited Baghdad to estimate the requirements to repair the Syrian embassy in Iraq.

The sources added that an Iraqi delegation is, at the meantime, preparing to visit Damascus to assess the condition of the house of the last Iraqi ambassador in Syria, Abdul Jalil al-Rawi, to accrediting the place as the headquarters of Iraq's embassy in Damascus.

The sources elaborated the two embassies will, mostly, open before the end of the current year. It indicated that this move is being made secretly so as not to provoke the US.