Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with his Syrian counterpart Ahmad Al Shara in Damascus on April 5 is significant not simply because it is historic, but because of what it suggests about Syria’s security policy. Much of the attention around the visit focused on the optics: Mr Zelenskyy was the first president from outside the Arab world to visit post-Assad Syria, and only the second foreign head of state to do so after Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al