The Syrian leader’s latest Moscow trip has clearly shown that Russian won’t be excluded from Middle Easter affairs

On 28 January, Syria’s transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa returned to Moscow for a working visit and held talks with President Vladimir Putin. The fact that this was his second trip to the Russian capital in a short space of time spoke louder than any ceremonial handshake.

Damascus is testing a diplomatic anchor, reaffirming a channel that has proved resilient in storms, and signaling that Syria’s re-entry into high politics would be measured by binding arrangements that touch the hardest questions of power, security, and…

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