Map Shows Middle East Alliances: Russia, Iran ... such as Russia and Iran. Russia in particular has been a strong military force in favor of Assad, with Russian troops being stationed in Syria ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in ...

Russia and Iran, along with Syria’s government, have long painted the rebels as terrorists, ... which lays out a road map for Syria’s political transition, starting with a cease-fire.

Iran is strengthening its ties with its European allies, Belarus and Serbia, to compensate for its partnership with Russia, while also seeking to exploit disunity among Western policymakers and ...

Russia and Iran have sway over government-held areas, the single biggest chunk of Syria. The United States has forces in the northeast and east, backing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday branded an Islamist-led offensive that has captured swathes of territory an attempt to redraw the regional map in line with US interests.His comments in a ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

Syria, Russia forces step up air raids in a bid to slow opposition advance. Joint Syrian-Russian strikes hit residential areas in Idlib city, causing widespread destruction and killing many civilians.

In 2015, Russia sent thousands of troops to Syria to help keep President Assad in power. In return for this military assistance, Russia was given 49-year leases on two key military bases.

SINGAPORE: No doubt policymakers in Tehran and Moscow are asking who lost Syria. In a tectonic rewrite of the Middle East’s geopolitical map, Bashar al-Assad was ousted on Sunday (Dec 8) after ...

Maps ; Map Shows Middle East Alliances: Russia, Iran, Israel, Syria. Published Dec 02, 2024 at 12:40 PM EST. By . Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London, U.K. He writes ...