By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The state-run news agency says the Syrian government has named an ambassador to Iraq, the first to fill the post since the 1980s.
SANA says Nawaf Fares was sworn in Tuesday before Syrian president Bashar Assad. Fares has been the governor of Syria's southeastern province of Quneitra.
Syria and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in November 2006, ending a 24-year break that followed charges by the Damascus government that Iraq incited riots in Syria in 1982 by members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
Syria joins the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait in naming ambassadors to Iraq, but the Syrian news agency did not say when Fares will travel to Baghdad.
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