Damascus has a long way to go, but it appears to be winning one round after another.
The United Arab Emirates re-opened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, another sign that the Syrian regime is being brought back into the fold in the region. It comes on the heels of a visit by Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir and also a visit by Syrian intelligence chief Ali Mamlouk to Cairo this week. The National in the UAE noted that the embassy opening was “the latest sign President Bashar al-Assad has emerged unscathed from a war in which more than 500,000 Syrians are estimated to have died.
