ARLINGTON, VA, July 14, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ — What the world came to call “The Syrian Civil War” was never a single war. “Syriana: One Conflict, 10 Wars,” a forthcoming work of contemporary military history, argues that the Syrian theater was a layered collision of ten separate conflicts, each with its own combatants, objectives, and outcomes.
The book breaks the conflict into discrete campaigns, examining each on its own terms: the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, HTS against ISIS, the Syrian opposition against the regime, Israel against Sunni extremist groups, and Israel against the Iran-led “Shia Crescent,” among others. Each chapter follows a clear arc – conflict, outcome, and significance – showing how a victory in one war often became a vulnerability in the next.
“Syriana” moves from the 1982 Hama uprising and the 2003 invasion of Iraq through the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 and the 2025 Israel-Iran war, among the most current single-volume accounts available. Its themes – shifting alliances, proxy warfare, foreign intervention, and the human cost of strategic miscalculation – run throughout.
The book examines the roles and competing interests of the United States, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, treating the region as one interconnected theater rather than isolated crises. An analyst rather than an advocate, the author weighs each actor’s calculations without casting heroes or villains.
“We keep talking about the war in Syria as if it were one thing,” says author Nadeem Iqbal. “Understand it as ten wars stacked on top of each other, each with different winners and losers, and the whole region starts to make sense.”
“Syriana: One Conflict, 10 Wars” is a contemporary history of the Syrian conflict and surrounding regional wars, structured as ten interlocking campaigns and current through 2026. By Nadeem Iqbal, who served 16 years as an intelligence officer for DoD (Afghanistan and Syria). He deployed five times (3 x Afghanistan, 2 x Iraq), served at CIA HQ and as the Pentagon’s Syria Country Director.. The book will be available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover through the author’s website and on Amazon.
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