Iraq lies between Syria to the west and what country to the east?
Iraq–Syria relations last years of Saddam Hussein, relations between the two countries were not good. New diplomatic relations established in November 2006, were heralded as the beginning of an era of close cooperation between Iraq and Syria. Both countries are at war with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In the Syrian Civil War, Iraq declared support for Assad and Iraqi volunteers have been fighting in Syria along the SAA. The two countries are part of the Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition which was formed as a consequence of an agreement reached at the end of September 2015 between Russia, Iran, Iraq and
Iraq–Syria relations Syria to "help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group (ISIL) to combat the advances of the group, according to the statement issued by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command. In June 2017, Iraqi and Syrian Arab Army forces have met on the border crossing. Efforts by Syrians and Iraqis to unite Iraq and Syria into one country have existed since the creation of the modern states. Such unification efforts were to continue under the Ba'ath Party. Hostility between Syria and Iraq started in the 1966 when both were under Ba'athist rule. Relations improved in the early 1970s