The government of Bashar al-Assad has received aid from several nations both within and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran ... while others are disputed territories that lack ...

Photo: Herald Post, Flickr. From 2003 to 2014, despite de jure Government of Iraq (GoI) authority, the Kurdish presence in the disputed territories in the Kirkuk, Diyala, Salahuddin, and Ninewa ...