The Arab acceptance serves to legitimise his rule over his war-wrecked country. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIRUT - Twelve years after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was shunned, Arab countries have gradually welcomed his regime back into the fold – as victor of a war that has yet to end.
Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries severed ties with Mr Assad more than a decade ago, and the Cairo-based Arab League suspended Damascus’s membership in 2011 as several powers bet on Mr Assad’s demise. Syria’s war began when repression of peaceful anti-government protests in 2011 escalated into a deadly conflict that pulled in foreign powers and global militants.
Damascus now controls most of Syria, after clawing back much of the ground it had lost with the crucial support of allies Iran and Russia. Rubble of collapsed buildings are removed two months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey’s mountainous southeast, Antakya, on April 5. PHOTO: AFP
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