(8.Mai) Citing Turkish officials an AP news report said:

Turkey and Saudi Arabia have forged a strategic alliance. The alliance has strengthened proxy fighters against Assad.

The two countries, according to the news report, consider the U.S. is in indecision on Assad, the two countries’ common enemy. For years, the two countries were at odds on the question of dealing with Assad, their common enemy. But their mutual frustration with what they consider American indecision has brought them into the strategic alliance.