While Biden focuses on China, his Arab allies are chumming up to Syria

Relations with Bashar al-Assad are thawing at a time Syria doesn’t appear to be a foreign policy priority for the US

10 October 2021 - 17:46 By Maha El Dahan

While Bashar al-Assad is still shunned by the West, which blames him for a decade of brutal war in Syria, a shift is under way in the Middle East, where Arab allies of the US are bringing him in from the cold by reviving economic and diplomatic ties...

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