A state built by a movement ISIS fought for a decade, now holding the prisons, the camps and the desert the caliphate's remnant waits on.
Counter-terrorismDefence
Open the full relationship record →Coverage · Syria
Vigil publishes no measure of how strong or how hostile a relationship is — the description and its evidence are the record.
Negotiation and enforcement in parallel — talks over the terms of an Israeli presence that has outlasted every round, with no text signed.
DefenceBorder securityDiplomatic
Open the full relationship record →Three cross-border operations and a standing demand for dissolution, until the force dissolved itself.
DefenceBorder securityCounter-terrorism
Open the full relationship record →The alliance that kept the Assad state alive for a decade, ended with the state — and a successor that has excluded its patron by policy.
DefenceFinanceEnergyDiplomatic
Open the full relationship record →Two facilities and one exile, being bargained with the government the bomber once fought against.
DefenceBasingDiplomatic
Open the full relationship record →The former intervenor now writes the doctrine: a signed memorandum turning accumulated leverage into the architecture of a new army.
DefenceTrainingEquipment transferInstitutional
Open the full relationship record →A protection relationship that one party declares an interest in, another neither claims nor denies, and a third treats as a fact.
DefenceDiplomaticHumanitarian
Open the full relationship record →A country's overland trade, its customs revenue and its returning population all move through the gates of one neighbour.
TradeInfrastructureHumanitarian
Open the full relationship record →Dissolved into the Ministry of Defence in January 2025, and rebuilt as five divisions — integration announced, and uneven by every account since.
DefenceInstitutional
Open the full relationship record →A decade of sponsorship now being dissolved into the army of the state the sponsored factions helped install.
DefenceTrainingEquipment transferFinanceInstitutional
Open the full relationship record →A decade of partnership that defeated a caliphate and ended with a base handover and a force dissolving itself.
DefenceTrainingEquipment transferIntelligenceCounter-terrorism
Open the full relationship record →Relief that has to be re-earned every hundred and eighty days, for four years.
FinanceTradeInstitutional
Open the full relationship record →A state absorbing the force that had defeated the caliphate — agreed twice, fought over once, and concluded when the force dissolved itself.
DefenceInstitutionalLegal and treaty
Open the full relationship record →A channel built so that two competitors would not collide — which carried no warning of the strike that tested it.
DefenceDiplomaticIntelligence
Open the full relationship record →What a decade of self-administration becomes inside a state that has not said what it will recognise.
InstitutionalDiplomatic
Open the full relationship record →Descriptive records, not ratings. There is no field anywhere in this layer for relationship strength, warmth, hostility or direction of travel, and none may be added. Change is carried by the validity period, the recorded last material change and the linked events — each of which a reader can check. See the methodology.