Tunisian president appoints new ambassador to Syria - presidency

CAIRO (Reuters) - Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Thursday appointed a new ambassador to Syria, the Tunisian presidency said in a statement, the latest Arab move to end Syria's regional isolation.

Tunisia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria nearly a decade ago to protest Assad's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 that developed into civil war in which hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed and millions sent fleeing.

(Reporting by Tarek Amara; Writing by Enas Alashray)