The Arab League regional bloc called on Iran on Thursday not to fuel “strife” in Syria, after the ouster of Tehran ally president Bashar al-Assad ended decades of rule by his clan.Al-Assad’s regime crumbled on December 8 and he fled for Russia, another key backer of his rule, after an opposition coalition of fighters wrested control of city after city until they reached Damascus.With al-Assad’s fall, Iran lost a key ally in the region, just as its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah emerged massively weakened but not crushed from a year of war with Israel.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The Arab League, which last year welcomed back al-Assad after a decade of isolation, emphasized the need to “respect Syria’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and stability, to restrict weapons to the hands of the state, dissolve all armed formations and reject all destabilizing foreign interventions.”Syria’s new authorities on Thursday launched an operation in a