Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is making a desperate last-ditch effort to stave off encroaching terrorist rebels — who increasing look like they will force him out of power — by offering to switch alliances and align himself with the West.
Bloomberg News reported that Assad has made “indirect diplomatic overtures to the US and President-elect Donald Trump” to save his dictatorship.
The deals that he is seeking apparently would allow him to stay in power or have safe passage into exile if need be.
The report said:
One offer Assad made to the US via the United Arab Emirates is for Syria to cut all involvement with Iran-backed militant groups, such as Hezbollah, if Western powers wield influence to stem the fighting, the people said.
Another initiative saw Assad dispatch a senior Christian leader to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to relay what he sees as an existential…
