My friends went to Syria and the took a picture of a snake.It's the best picture they had. When I look at the head it seems like a Lytorhynchus. I don't find a herp-list of Syria but I found one of Jordania. In Jordania there two species. L. diadema en L. kennedyi. I can't find a picture of L. kennedyi.
But when I google L. maynardi is an animal who looks very simular to this picture, only problem L. maynardi lives around Afganistan.
I think it's an Lythorhynchus, but which one?
First I thought it was a Coluber elegantissimus.
Peter