LONDON: For years, Hezbollah fighters propped up Syrian ruler Bashar Assad, who the men now governing in Damascus fought to overthrow. Both sides are now talking about sitting down together.
Any handshake between them would be built on that history.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Tuesday that he had no objection to meeting openly with Syria’s leadership — the first time he has taken such a position since his Iran-backed group fought on behalf of Syria’s former government.
The signals have also come from Damascus.
Syria’s interim president, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, told Al-Mashhad TV in June that if sitting down with Hezbollah “serves Lebanon’s interests and safeguards Syria’s interests, why not?”
