While most Arab countries declared their opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad brutal suppression of protests early on in the Syrian uprising, the trend has reversed in recent years with Arab countries warming to the regime. Bahrain and the UAE have both reopened embassies in Damascus, while Omar Rahmoun, a spokesman for the Assad regime’s “National Reconciliation Committee” has recently been on a Saudi Arabia-focused charm offensive on Twitter, repeatedly emphasising historic ties between Riyadh and Damascus and the importance of the kingdom in Arab affairs. In a recent picture on Tw…

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