That’s because the area that Israel has co-opted in Syria is now part of their air corridor linking Israeli territory with that of Iran, cutting across Syria and northern Iraq into neighboring Iran.

Two separate attacks on US forces based in Iraq and Syria last week injured ... The uptick could be an attempt by Iran-backed militias to put themselves back on the map, so to say, and demonstrate ...

The stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria ... Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon and enabling the smuggling of weapons across the region via a corridor stretching from Iran through ...

During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), Damascus played a key role ... the Lebanese Shiite group that became an indispensable ally for both. In this framework, Syria transformed into a strategic ...

The resurgence of fighting in Syria has brought ... to Damascus have allowed Iran to spread its influence through a land corridor from its western border via Iraq all the way to Lebanon.

For Iran, Syria provided a crucial land corridor to the Levant that was considered ... in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and was meant to give Iran the ...

His strategic vision, often referred to as the “landbridge” through Iraq, was aimed at establishing a direct connection between Iran and Syria, effectively creating a corridor of influence ...

FOR MORE than a year, fighting between Israel and Iran’s network of allied militias ... of missile attacks on American targets in Iraq and Syria in 2017, 2018 and 2020. An Iranian base there ...

The power vacuum in Syria after the downfall of the Assad ... status just like Iraqi Kurds did following the Iraq war." For Iran, the Assad regime was a critical strategic ally in the Middle ...