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President of Iraq Fuad Masum has praised Iran as "the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists". [5] Iran's Quds Force is a "key player" in the military intervention against ISIL [6] and its "mastermind" commander Major General Qasem Soleimani maintained a frequent presence in Iraq while his pictures ...
Between 15 and 17 January, rebels captured Jibreen, Hardntin Kfarrakeshr, [89] [90] Sheikh Ali, Aajel, 46th base, Orum al-Sughra and Reef al-Muhandiseen, while the ISIL retreated from the village of Kafarjoum, which holds the largest ISIL arms depots in all of Syria. [91] ISIL also withdrew from Saraqab, burning their vehicles as they retreated ...
Following the outbreak of the protests of Syrian revolution during the Arab Spring in 2011 and the escalation of the ensuing conflict into a full-scale civil war by mid-2012, [1] the Syrian Civil War became a theatre of proxy warfare between various regional powers such as Turkey and Iran.
Iran and Syria, meanwhile, have had strong relations since the 1979 Iranian revolution. Iranian troops are also reported to have fought alongside Syrian government forces in 2015.
Iran had backed Assad in Syria's long civil war and his overthrow was widely seen as a major blow to the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance", a political and military alliance that opposes Israeli and U ...
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
The Syrian government and Iranian officials have accused Israel and the United States government of supporting ISIS by attacking Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Army as well as arming and giving medical attention to the Islamic State. [77] [78] In 2017, the Syrian Army reportedly found Israeli made artillery pieces at ISIL hideouts. [79]
The fall of the Syrian regime weakens Iran's regional influence and could pose logistical and strategic challenges to Iran's regional proxies like the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.