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Syria Offers to Mediate Lebanon Crisis as Hezbollah Rejects Beirut Track

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Syria Offers to Mediate Lebanon Crisis as Hezbollah Rejects Beirut Track

🕌 DAMASCUS — Syria offers mediation after being Lebanon's destabilizer for decades. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Al-Sharaa's offer lands as Hezbollah publicly splits from Beirut's track — creating a vacuum Damascus now wants to fill. Syria's new government has no leverage over Hezbollah, which answers to Tehran, not Damascus. Washington will read this as noise; Iran will read it as a rival channel. The offer costs nothing and signals Al-Sharaa is rebuilding regional standing.

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