Syrian mediation between Iraq and the Arab Gulf states

News reports said on Monday that Syria is currently mediating between Iraq and the Arab Gulf members states especially Kuwait in order to normalize relations and open a new page.

The Qatari daily al-Watan said that sources that refused to be disclosed stressed that this mediation has achieved a big stride in the area of making contacts between Iraq and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council states.

The sources expected that these Syrian efforts will continue in the coming phase and will be adjusted in order to create elements of stability and confidence in the Iraqi- Arab Gulf relations in order to end any attempt what so ever made by the new US administration to once again escalate the situation with Baghdad and to try to find out new hotbeds in the region, in general.

The sources told the paper that Syria also makes similar mediation efforts between Iraq and Iran, noting the recent improvements on the relations between the two countries which is considered a fruit to the efforts made by Damascus, stem from strategic considerations aspire to establish a Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian alliance in the region to withstand the American- Israeli alliance and its grave and numerous challenges.