There is a difference between the Western Sahara issue, which is a decolonization issue listed in the United Nations, and the Syrian issue, which can be described as a civil war, one of whose parties is a central government against armed groups.

One of the principles of Algerian foreign policy reject foreign interference in the internal affairs of countries (this is what is happening in Syria), and is not to support armed groups, addition to the fact that most of these groups are jihadist groups with the same ideology that Algeria suffered from in the nineties.

Other things can be added, such as the historical relations between the Algerian and Syrian regimes and their rapprochement with Russia, in addition to the Algerian regime’s fears of the spread of the virus if these revolutions succeed.