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The move to readmit Syria to the Arab League also signals the weakening influence of the United States

Residents and members of the country’s political opposition alike are angered at the Arab League’s decision.

Just as the Arab League has reinstated Syria's membership after a 11-year suspension, a video has emerged showing President Bashar al-Assad wandering the streets of Damascus without security – which some Twitter users claim shows his "bravery" and "popularity" amongst his people, unlike other world leaders. But is this true…

Saudi Arabia's crown prince is mending fences with Syria and Iran, soothing rivalries with Gulf rivals and now welcoming the Biden administration's point man on security to Jeddah. Ten months after that frosty fist bump with the US president, Mohammed bin Salman is talking peace-brokering in Sudan and a winding…

The Arab League’s decision to re-admit Syria after 12 years of ostracization was a large symbolic victory for Damascus

Jordan carried out rare air strikes on southern Syria on Monday, hitting a Iran-linked drugs factory and killing a smuggler allegedly behind big hauls across the two countries' border, local and intelligence sources said.

President Bashar al-Assad always saw time as an ally in Syria's civil war, alongside the Russian and Iranian firepower he turned on his foes, sources familiar with his thinking say.

There have been warm welcomes and scepticism, but most countries have opted for a muted response.

Syrian factions have given mixed reactions to an Arab League decision to lift the suspension on Syria's membership after more than a decade of isolation, underscoring the deep rifts cut into the country by years of bloodshed.