Matthew Ayton

Spec­u­la­tion has been rife Amer­i­can forces would with­draw­al from Syr­ia af­ter the Afghanistan pull­out.

Af­ter years of con­flict, Riyadh now views Dam­as­cus as an ex­pe­di­ent av­enue to shore up broad­er re­gion­al in­ter­ests.