Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met with the new Syrian leadership on Monday. He spoke to Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that took over Damascus on December 8, whereby the former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and his regime fell.
Since then, Sharaa has been hosting a plethora of delegations from abroad, including Turkey, Qatar, the UK, France, Germany, and the US. The meeting with the Jordanians is important because Jordan is a neighbor, and it has a long history of complex ties to Syria.
Al-Ain media in the United Arab Emirates wrote about the meeting between Safadi and Sharaa. This illustrates how closely the Gulf is watching developments in Damascus. It should be noted that the Gulf states and Amman were ready to reach out to the Assad regime in the last several years. The goal was to enable it to return to the Arab League. Now that Assad is gone, these same countries have to shuffle the deck. (Read More)
