Syrian transitional leader Ahmed Al Sharaa will visit Jordan tomorrow and meet King Abdullah to discuss boosting ties between the neighbouring countries, two Jordanian officials said.
The visit is the new interim leader’s third foreign trip along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey since he came to power after leading a decisive rebel offensive which ousted long-time Iran-backed Bashar Al Assad.
Sharaa is expected to hold wide-ranging talks over border security and ways of expanding commercial ties.
Assad’s relationships with most of the Arab world and his neighbours were strained throughout the nearly 14-year Syrian war.
Sharaa has pledged to stamp out rampant drug smuggling along the two countries’ borders which proliferated during the rule of toppled Assad and whom Jordan blamed on pro-Iranian militias that held sway in southern Syria.
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