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DOHA (Reuters) -The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after rebel forces swept into Damascus this weekend, shattered Iran's network of influence in the Middle East but Israel, the United ...
A former al Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, seized the moment (along with other rebel groups) for a long-awaited assault on Assad — securing the fall of the Assad regime within 10 days.
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has left Iran and Russia on the outside, while Iran is accelerating its pursuit of a nuclear weapon and al-Shabaab is emerging as a potential proxy for Iran ...
Amid a rapid-fire collapse of Syrian, Hezbollah, Russian and Iranian forces in northern Syria, questions are surfacing about U.S. policy toward the emerging new order in the war-ravaged Syrian ...
Iran's foreign ministry published a statement stating that it "respects Syria's unity and national sovereignty" and pleaded for armed conflicts to immediately cease. The Iranian leadership said it was committed to international efforts supporting the political process and expressed confidence that their strong relations would persist. [ 32 ]
President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable when his allies were distracted by ...
Iranian security and intelligence services advised and assisted the Syrian military in order to preserve the erstwhile Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power. [39] Those efforts included training, technical support, and combat troops. [39] [45] Estimates of the number of Iranian personnel in Syria ranged from hundreds to tens of ...
Historically, the two countries shared a common animosity towards the Iraqi Ba'ath Party and Saddam Hussein, with Syria providing military aid to Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. After Hafiz al-Assad's death in 2000, Bashar al-Assad continued the relationship by supporting Hezbollah and various Iranian proxies; with the alliance being described ...