View: Saudi Arabia’s delicate long game in Syria

View: Saudi Arabia’s delicate long game in Syria

Alaa’s viewSaudi Arabia’s announcement that some of its best-known companies will invest $5.3 billion in Syria’s communications, aviation, and water infrastructure will hardly move the needle for the war-torn country. But the dollar figure here isn’t the story.What matters more is how this fits into a broader plan to tackle one of the world’s most complicated nation-building efforts since the US-led invasion of Iraq more than two decades ago.Sau…