Russia’s role in Middle East politics endures, shifts to being ‘secondary power’
Russia is confounding expectations that its influence in the Middle East would drastically decline after the downfall of Syria’s Assad regime in 2024.
At the time, Moscow operated about 100 military facilities in the war-torn country, following its intervention in the Syrian civil conflict from 2015 to prop up then president Bashar al-Assad in alliance with Iran and its regional proxies.
When Assad was forced to flee to Moscow, and control of most of Syria was seized by Islamist rebels led by...
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