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…and that their "military clout is diminished." Mr. Pipes said even Russia's formerly close ties to Syria are now history. "Syria was part of a net- work" including military and intelligence ties to Russia, Mr. Pipes said. "It's not there now." Both Mr. Pipes and Adam Garfinkle, director of the Middle East Council at the Foreign Policy Research In- stitute in Philadelphia, said they doubted Russia would continue to devote this relatively high l...…

















































