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Hamas delegation to make first visit to Syria in a decade on Wednesday
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on March 23, 2022, in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP)
A delegation from the Hamas terror group will visit Damascus on Wednesday, the first after a decade-long rupture sparked by the outbreak of Syria’s bloody civil war, Reuters reports.
The terror group last month hailed its newly warming ties with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as “a service to the [Palestinian] nation.”
Analysts say the shift pushes Hamas deeper into the fold of the Iran-led “axis of resistance” against Israel that includes Syria, as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
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