LAlgeria is one of the rare countries to regret the ousting of the “butcher of Damascus”. The fall of the Syrian tyrant weakens its strategic posture and plunges it further into geopolitical impasse. A faithful ally of the dictatorship of Assad father (Hafez) then son (Bachar), she is now deprived of a partner who was as close as she was precious to her. On December 3, she again affirmed in an official press release her “unwavering solidarity” with the “sister nation”, as Islamist rebels marched on Damascus.
Birds of a feather flock together: just like the former Syrian regime, that of Algiers has its roots in the Arab nationalist ideology of Nasser, socializing and anti-Western. Both countries experienced French rule, Syria during the mandate period (1920-1946) and Algeria…
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