Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

For many years, Egypt and Syria shared Soviet patronage, briefly formed a short-lived, failed union (the United Arab Republic), and fought monumental battles against their mutual Israeli adversary.