Iran recruited Afghan refugees to fight in the Syrian Civil War on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime, as reported by Ali Latifi in the New York Times on June 30, 2017.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: CSIS
  War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS

Sources

• War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS www.csis.org CSIS via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• Iran location
• Syria location
• Bashar al-Assad entity
• Syrian Civil War event