No plan to reopen embassy: France

France’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the reopening of its embassy in Syria was not on the table, signalling there may be no fundamental change to Paris’ approach to the Syrian conflict under new president Emmanuel Macron.

Citing a political source close to Macron, pan-Arab daily newspaper had reported on Monday that Macron was reviewing France’s decision to close the embassy in 2012. —

AFP A displaced Iraqi woman tends to the cucumber vines inside a plastic greenhouse at the Bahrka refugee camp, near Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. —