With the Syrian army extending its control over most of southern Syria, including along the border with Jordan, Jordanians are divided over the possibility of normalizing ties between Amman and Damascus after seven years of tensions. There has been no official position taken by the Jordanian government or the Syrian regime on the issue. There are, however, signs that the two countries are considering reopening their border crossing as a step toward restoring full ties.

On July 22, Ammonnews.net, a pro-government Jordanian news site, quoted “informed sources” as noting that the decision to reopen the crossing in both directions at Nasib must be mutually agreed upon and requires coordination between the two countries. A day earlier, the daily Al-Ghad had reported Russian sources as saying that the Amman-Damascus highway was safe for travelers, since fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra had been evacuated from the area.

The Syrian army captured the Nasib border crossing, in Daraa province, on July 6. Two days later, the official Syrian news agency, SANA, announced that work had already begun on rehabilitating the highway connecting Damascus and Amman after a three-year closure resulting from rebels' seizure of the crossing point with Jordan. It said the highway will be ready for civilian traffic within a week.

The semi-official Arabic daily Addustour published a report on July 18 in which a number of Jordanian businessmen and trade organizations called on the government to reopen borders with Syria. It quoted Adnan Ghaith, deputy of the Amman Chamber of Industry, as saying that reopening the border with Syria will revive Jordan’s economy, which had suffered as a result of the closure of the country's land borders with both Syria and Iraq.