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Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

Map Shows Middle East Alliances: Russia, Iran, Israel, Syria. ... with Russian troops being stationed in Syria since launching an intervention during the country's civil war in 2015.

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Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

The Soviet Union, which wanted to increase its influence in the Middle East, became a major weapons supplier to these countries. In 1958 Syria and Egypt formed the United Arab Republic.

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There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One.

Map Shows Middle East Alliances: Russia, Iran, Israel, Syria. Published Dec 02, 2024 at 12:40 PM EST. By . ... As rebels in Syria make new advances against government forces, ...