Competing foreign interests trump Syrian aspirations for political change
- Written by Hanlie Booysen, PhD Candidate and Tutor in Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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The United States’ withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal exacerbated the violence in Syria. But to understand how Syria became the theatre for proxy wars, we have to return to the Arab...
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