Sharaa: Lebanon must benefit from Syria's rise or it will lose a lot

Syria’s interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa has lamented that some in Lebanon are depicting Syria’s new authorities as “terrorists and an existential threat” while other Lebanese “want to rely on the strength of new Syria to settle scores with Hezbollah.”

“We are neither this nor that,” Sharaa added.

Cautioning that “Lebanon must benefit from Syria’s rise or it will lose a lot,” the Syrian leader noted that Damascus has offered “concessions” over “the wounds caused by Hezbollah” instead of “carrying on with the fight after Damascus’ liberation.”

“We want a state-to-state relation with Lebanon that is based on economic solutions, stability and common interest,” al-Sharaa added.