2016 – Contours of the New Reality
... hopes of improving ties with the United States and minimizing the fallout from their rupture. However, in all probability, relations are unlikely to improve dramatically in the next year. The trends of the past few years continued to prevail in the Middle East in 2016. The first of them is the consolidation of the role of regional powers, primarily Iran and Turkey. The second trend is the ability of the Syrian army to achieve considerable success in the Russian-backed struggle against the radicals. Aleppo’s ...
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