Lebanon and Syria: A Complicated Relationship between Energy and Geopolitics

Modern Diplomacy

Syria continues to offer the ground where Russia and the United States compete over control of oil and gas fields and the transportation routes. Russia seeks to expand its energy footprint to build influence over US-backed rebel-controlled areas and over neighboring Lebanon. Despite challenges Syria and Lebanon have an interest in ensuring that they are not excluded or left behind from regional energy cooperation.

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