Christopher Phillips, deputy dean of Queen Mary University in London, believes that the wars in Libya and Syria are strangely intertwined, and that with continued instability, foreign interference, and the edge of a regional abyss, there is no way that the conflict in one of them will echo over the other.

In his article in the Middle East Eye, the writer indicated that when Egypt recently threatened to intervene in the Libya war, it received the full support of Damascus.

He hinted that it may seem strange that the besieged Syrian regime - which is still fighting a fierce civil conflict that has attracted a large number of foreign interventions - supports similar intervention elsewhere with such extreme enthusiasm. But it seems - according to him - that this intervention serves a broader goal for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which is flattering Egypt and its allies.

It also fits in with a pattern that has existed since the beginning of the two civil wars in Syria and Libya in 2011. Although the two conflicts have followed different paths, the Libya war has repeatedly affected events in Syria, where its echo was felt in unexpected ways on the other side of the White Sea The average.

Now, when that failed to achieve the rapid success seen elsewhere, and Assad responded with brutal violence, some instead looked at the model of the Libyan revolution, as armed revolutionaries toppled Muammar Gaddafi.

While this led to a heated debate among members of the Syrian opposition, the opposition in exile - the Syrian National Council - by 2012, had formally approved the armed strategy that revolutionary fighters on the ground were already implementing.

For nearly a decade, the tragic war in Syria has been strangely intertwined with the dismal conflict in Libya, and this sad pattern seems unlikely to end soon.

Libya has already become a source of weapons and funding for Syrian rebels. In early November 2011, Syrian revolutionaries were negotiating with the new government in Tripoli over the provision of weapons.

The writer added that al-Assad's intervention in Libya was similarly utilitarian, as his support for retired Major General Khalifa Hifter, including granting him the Libyan embassy in Damascus, carried ideological elements; Both are despotic, hate the Muslim Brotherhood, ally with Russia and oppose Turkey.

He added that Assad's move now comes from the desire to attract Haftar's main external allies: the UAE and Egypt. The urgent need for economic support from the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, especially support for its faltering and punishing economy, appears.

Phillips concluded his article that with the possibility of Syria and Libya remaining unstable for some time, and exposed them to interference and influence from international powers that helped provoke and prolong conflicts; It is unlikely that this is the last time that events in the two countries have affected each other.

For nearly a decade, the tragic war in Syria has been strangely entangled with the dismal conflict in Libya, and this sad pattern seems unlikely to end soon.