What Happened to Syria?

The British wanted control over Iraq to present Iraq firstly for the oil and secondly because they wanted to safeguard the Suez Canal, which was the umbilical code of the British Empire at the time. In Syria, what happened is that there were these various, various governments came and went. I think in 1970, there was a bloodless coup and a bus. Hafez Al-Assad came to power. He allied Syria with the USSR. Even though Syria had aligned with the USSR, they allied with the US in the first Gulf War to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. And then in 2011, there was this so-called Arab Spring, which were these color revolutions instigated by the