BAGHDAD, Mar 26, 2012 (AFP) - Baghdad will from Tuesday host its first Arab summit in more than 20 years, with the relentless crackdown on dissent in Syria topping the agenda of the three-day meeting.
In advance of the summit, AFP will be filing a special package of text, videos, pictures and graphics looking in detail at the summit.
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BAGHDAD
After decades of being at the centre of the Arab world, Syria now sits in the dock with regional leaders meeting in Baghdad this week over how to end Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown on an uprising.
800 words by Prashant Rao. Picture. Graphic. Video.
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BAGHDAD
The Arab summit in Baghdad this week will be very different from the one that met two years ago, with many long-time autocrats swept away by the political tsunami that struck the region.
750 words by Amelie Herenstein.
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BAGHDAD
With renovated hotels and tighter security, Baghdad is putting on its best face for this week's Arab summit in what Iraq has billed as its re-emergence as a regional leader after decades of unrest.
700 words by Prashant Rao. Picture. Video.
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CAIRO
Back in 2008, flamboyant Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned rulers at an Arab League summit in Damascus that they, too, could face the fate of executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The assembled dictators burst out laughing.
850 words by Samer al-Atrush. Graphic.
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