Middle East

All’s forgiven in the Middle East: Arab League ready to embrace Syria once again…….


 

Never one to be judgmental…

 

Arab League set to readmit Syria eight years after expulsion

 

Gulf nations bloc moving to welcome Syria back into the fold after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal repression of protests

 

Gulf nations are moving to readmit Syria into the Arab League, eight years after Damascus was expelled from the regional bloc over its brutal repression of peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad.

 

At some point in the next year it is likely Assad will be welcomed on to a stage to once again take his place among the Arab world’s leaders, sources say. Shoulder to shoulder with the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and Egypt’s latest autocrat, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the moment will mark the definitive death of the Arab spring, the hopes of the region’s popular revolutions crushed by the newest generation of Middle Eastern strongmen.

 

Syria was thrown out of the Arab League in 2011 over its violent response to opposition dissent, a move that failed to stem the bloodshed that spiralled into civil war.

 

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