Saudi Arabia is planning to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to an Arab League summit Riyadh is hosting in May, Reuters reported Sunday, citing three people familiar with the plan.
The move would be a significant step in the normalization of Syria’s relations with regional countries. Damascus was suspended from the Arab League in 2011, and many of the bloc’s members supported the failed regime change effort against Assad, including Saudi Arabia.
The news comes after Syria’s foreign minister visited Egypt for the first time in over a decade. An Egyptian security source told Reuters that the purpose of the visit was to work toward Syria rejoining the Arab League, which is based in Cairo, through Saud and Egyptian mediation.
Syria and Saudi Arabia have been holding talks on reestablishing ties and are expected soon to resume formal diplomatic relations, which have also been suspended since 2011.
The US is opposed to regional countries normalizing with Syria as it prefers to keep the country isolated and under crippling economic sanctions. Washington also occupies about one-third of Syria’s territory, where most of the country’s oil and wheat resources are located.
Much of the recent engagement between regional countries and Syria came after a devastating earthquake killed thousands in northwest Syria. Following the quake, the State Department said it opposed other countries upgrading ties with Assad even if it was part of an effort to help with earthquake relief.
US is not occupying a third of Syria. That was before Trump withdrew from large chunk of Syria. Kurds, YOg and SDF tried to hang on areas USvwithdrew from, but had to cut deal with Assad in order to orevent Turkey attacking them. US troops are north of Hassakah, in oil fields on Iraqi bordet. They are also in part of Deir Azzor, Al-Tanf military base + “refugee camp”, in fact mikitants used occassionaly as “ISIS”.
Majority Kurd area, Afrin, is occupied by Turkey.
The “great Satan” and the “little Satan” won’t like this at all.
Good.
You must mean Washington and London. Because Zionist pseudo-state in Palestine hardly qualify as Judeo-Christian ‘evil’ god.
I’m not picky. Toss Britain in the mix as well.
“The US is opposed to regional countries normalizing with Syria as it prefers to keep the country isolated and under crippling economic sanctions.”
Opposed to Syria’s reconstruction and regional states normalizing with Assad. Opposed to Iran and Saudi Arabia reopening diplomatic ties. Opposed to peace deals in Ukraine. Opposed to officially ending the Korean war. Opposed to everything and anything that might make the planet more peaceful.
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Great. Peace in Mideast is a disaster for the Anglo-American empire.
Before 1991?
America was – more or less – the ‘good guys’ (amongst the BIG kids in town).
Since 2002?
America are no longer ‘the good guys’. They are doing far more harm than good around the world.
She is quickly becoming an agent for chaos.
The 21’st century Shadows (to use a Babylon 5 analogy).
The neocons are in a coma, they have yet to notice how many new enemies Biden’s neocon policies made and are making.
21 EU members are NATO members, Biden’s sanctions and the pipeline sabotage is destroying them economically. They are not friends and allies anymore, if they ever were, arm-twisting, and sanctions are the glue holding NATO together.
This interesting. Israel has normalized relations with SA. SA now may mend the fence between SA and Syria. Israel keeps bombing Syria. We keep forces in 1/3 of Syria so as to allow the control of and theft of oil from Syria, plus, for good measure, we are sanctioning Syria. I am confused.
That is a hopeful sign.
Assad should stay home where he is safer from assassination
“The US is opposed to regional countries normalizing with Syria as it
prefers to run the Middle East without interference from the Arab rubes.”
FIFY
I’ll bet Blinkenstein is not pleased.
This and a possible civil war in Israel may be the turning point in policies. It’s not looking good for Israel which may be heading for a civil war. Ben-Gvir got his private militia (called ‘national guard’ as euphemism). Remember Germany between WWI and WWII someone else with a racist/hateful agenda and ideas got his own militia also? Israel is becoming what it hates the most. Never hate anything or anyone, or that will happen to you. I’ve been saying that since 2014 and now it comes true. ”
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has given
preliminary approval for the establishment of a national guard overseen
by an ultranationalist Cabinet minister with a long record of anti-Arab
rhetoric and stunts.”https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-government-advances-ben-gvirs-national-guard-force-98302545