Arab Solution to Syrian Crisis Bumps into US Sanctions

... whether Syria’s return will be on the agenda at all. Thus, as recently as last fall, Egyptian officials made it clear that the decision to return a seat in the LAS to Assad’s... ... too, there is certain wariness towards Arab states, and they remember too well that Saudi Arabia, along with Qatar, had been among the main sponsors of the Syrian opposition... ... period of active fighting. And it is not the Arab boycott that is to blame, but U.S. sanctions that made any transactions with the SAR toxic. Banks, insurance and transport...