Bashar al-Assad's regime has largely remained passive in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, aligning with the Arab normalization axis while Iran and its allies actively confront “Israel”.

The invasion of Ukraine has prompted some Central Asian and Caucasus states to diversify their foreign relations, moving away from Moscow and forging new ties with other global powers.

Although the Biden administration distanced itself from the far-right members of Netanyahu’s government and rejected extending a White House invite to the Israeli PM, it generally supported his practices in the occupied West Bank.