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Turkey's offer to rebuild the Syria military is an opening to displace Russian and Iranian power
Turkey offered to help rebuild the Syrian military shattered by the fall of the long-ruling Assad regime and Israeli airstrikes, potentially filling a void left by Russia's diminishing forces.