While Arab countries appear to have brought Assad in from the cold, they are still demanding that he curbs Syria's drug trade.
In the resumed talks in Jeddah, the sides will start by discussing mechanisms to implement plans for aid delivery, safe corridors and the removal of forces from civilian areas.
Arab League partners expect Syrian President Bashar Assad to deal with massive trafficking of the amphetamine Captagon, but the drug’s production and distribution network is embedded in Syria
This is a major development and shows how quickly Saudi Arabia has worked to bring Syria back into the Arab fold.
Iran has also continued to work to increase the terror infrastructure of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Iran’s allies in Syria are now moving back toward the Arab League and Iran’s president just returned from Damascus while its foreign minister was in Beirut.
Readmitting Syria into the Arab League was a "shock" for Syrians and would "kill the political process," said Bader Jamous, the head of the opposition's negotiating team
Jordan supported Syria's return to the Arab League but at the same time also wants the war-torn country to crack down on the drug trade.
The return of Syria to the Arab League is a symbolic turning point, bookending the Arab Spring and part of a new diplomatic era in the region, with the potential to hand over a win to Iran and Russia
Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 after cracking down on protests against the regime.
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