![]() ![]() ![]() Their motivations include the hope that this will eventually diminish the influence of Iran and other nations inside Syria, as well as a general acknowledgment that there’s a lack of any better options, now that the civil war has more or less hardened into several implacable fronts. Most recently though, members of the Arab League have started to rebuild connections with the authoritarian Assad regime. Syria was suspended from the body in 2011, shortly after its peaceful revolution began to turn into a bloody civil war, one that has since lapsed into a stalemate. ![]() But the Saudi move is in line with a decision made by regional foreign ministers earlier this month in Cairo, allowing Syria back into the 22-member group. The invitation was issued by the Saudi government, which had long been opposed to normalizing relations with Syria’s Bashar Assad regime and had even previously supported anti-government fighters in the country’s civil war. Syria has been invited to attend the next meeting of regional cooperation organization the Arab League, to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 19. ![]()
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