Arab ministers discuss Syria's future and drug trade in regional meeting hosted by Jordan.

Arab foreign ministers from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria will meet in Jordan to discuss Syria's conflict and ending Damascus's diplomatic isolation in the region. The meeting is a continuation of the consultative meeting of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt, which was hosted by Saudi Arabia in mid-April. The effort to bring Syria back into the Arab fold and away from Iran has been led by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The 12-year war in Syria has claimed around half a million lives and nearly half of its population are now refugees or internally displaced.