Damascus' motives for these interventions are aimed at strengthening its support in the region, but they may have serious consequences as it abandons the neutrality it has officially maintained for the past two years and will officially align itself with the so-called Sunni axis - associated with the interests of Israel and the US - at a time when the renewal of the regional war with Iran seems imminent.

Damascus' motives for these interventions are aimed at strengthening its support in the region, but they may have serious consequences as it abandons the neutrality it has officially maintained for the past two years and will officially align itself with the so-called Sunni axis - associated with the interests of Israel and the US - at a time when the renewal of the regional war with Iran seems imminent.