News and Reports - The Middle East

US-RUSSIA TENSIONS ESCALATING IN SYRIA

Rick Sterling discusses how tensions between the US and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine may be spilling over to Syria, how Russian and American involvement in Syria differ and why the US is still involved in the country despite being asked to leave, and how the connections between the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria demonstrate the dangers of these tensions between the US and Russia.
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