The 34th Arab League Summit opened on May 17 in Baghdad. This is an important event and symbolizes major changes in the region. The reports in Iraq note that the summit seeks to focus on many issues in the region,

BAGHDAD (AP) — Regional leaders were to meet in Baghdad on Saturday at the annual summit of the Arab League, with the war in Gaza expected to once again loom large. In March, at an emergency summit in Cairo, Arab leaders endorsed a proposed plan for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip without displacing its roughly 2 million residents.

The Israeli war on Gaza and Syria’s future dominated the agenda of the 34th regular session of the Arab League Summit that opened Saturday in Baghdad, as Iraq hosted its first summit since 2012.