As other Arab countries, like Egypt, began moving away from the Soviet orbit in the 1970s, Hafez al-Assad’s regime in Syria remained a staunch Soviet ally. Relations ... of Iraq gave the two ...

Saddam’s equally murderous and hated Mukhabarat in Iraq was also developed with Soviet assistance ... relates to Turkiye-Israel relations. Apo Ocalan is still in prison and the Turkish ...

Yet history may have placed him in the position to accomplish inadvertently for China what Ronald Reagan did intentionally for the Soviet Union ... point to Iraq and Afghanistan as negative ...

He was one of only six Republicans to vote against authorizing the use of force against Iraq in 2002 ... Foreign Service in 1968 and worked on Soviet relations and disarmament issues.

Klots’s book offers an insightful analysis of how the Soviet state struggled with the issue of domestic service even as it pledged to do away with inequality and exploitation. A stunningly lyrical ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and allied regimes ... Following the illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the sovereigntist Wolfowitz doctrine of 2007 redefined its foreign policy priorities to ...

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Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the nation has become a battleground for competing hegemons. The United ...

In the late 1970s and 1980s, this ideology was fostered as a means to resist the Soviet invasion ... This narrative continues to impact global relations, fostering division and fear, while ...

Then in September, Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Damascus, after nearly a decade of broken relations ... most obviously in Iraq. Because what has been lost is obvious, but not what is ...

Relations between Rabat and Damascus have been ... and constituted the largest number of foreign volunteers for IS in Iraq and Syria. For several years now, the Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian ...

The treaty provided for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and establishment of diplomatic relations ... Carter protested the former Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ...