Fires are raging across the Middle East. Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza while trying to deter a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Another Iranian proxy, the Houthis, is disrupting shipping in the Red Sea. But another problem looms: Syria.
In 2015, then-President Barack Obama predicted that the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war would be a “quagmire” for Moscow. The opposite happened. Russia and Iran worked together to save Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Iran’s proxies, many trained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are now using what they’ve learned in Syria to attack America’s allies in the region, including Israel and the Gulf states.
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