SHAFAQNA- Saudi Crown Prince’s effusive greeting of President Bashar Assad at the Arab Summit with kissed cheeks and a warm embrace defied USA’s disapproval at Syria’s return to the fold.
Mohammed bin Salman, seeks to reassert Saudi Arabia as a regional power by using his place atop an energy giant in an oil-dependent world consumed by the war in Ukraine.
Shunned by Western states after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi hit squad, the prince has now emerged as a player whom Washington can neither disregard nor disavow, but must deal with on a transactional basis.
Source: reuters
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