Algeria’s FM makes first visit to Damascus since Assad’s fall

Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf arrived in Damascus on Saturday, marking the first visit by an Algerian official to Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The Algerian Foreign Ministry said Attaf is visiting the Syrian capital as a special envoy of Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. According to Algeria’s Foreign Ministry: “the visit seeks to reaffirm Algeria’s solidarity with Syria during this critical period in its modern history.”