Iraqi-Syrian Relations 2009-2012

Abstract

It raised the Iraqi-Syrian relations, throughout its long history, witnessed many different situations even before their establishment as two independent neighbors in the period between the two world wars, as the relations between them experienced a lot of tension and mutual accusations that the opposite side was working to destabilize the security of the other side. In various ways and means, especially in recent years, Iraq accused the Syrian side in 2009 of harboring dissidents and suicide bombers who carried out many bombings in various parts of Iraq, which left large numbers of innocent victims.

   Despite all of the above, relations between the two countries improved in 2010 and onwards, whose important manifestations were the periodic mutual visits of officials in the two countries, as well as Iraq’s support for the Syrian side with the beginnings of the stormy crisis that swept Syria in 2011, represented by protests and widespread unrest in Most of the provinces, so that Iraq extended a hand of cooperation to the Syrian government at various levels, and it was a standalone that did not resemble the positions of other Arab countries .