BEIRUT // Since the end of the Cold War, Moscow’s allies in the Middle East have steadily disappeared, along with much of Russia’s influence in this strategic corner of the world.Saddam Hussein, formerly the leader of long-standing Russian partner Iraq, met his end at the gallows nine years ago.Then in 2011, Libyan rebels dragged Muammar Qaddafi – whose demise cost Moscow billions of dollars in arms deals – out of a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte and unceremoniously shot him in the head
And Yemen, where the Soviets had propped up a communist state in the south, unified in …read more
Source: The National
