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Turkey has offered to assist the victorious Syrian opposition forces with building up more military force. Here, an opposition soldier fires a machine gun mounted in a truck bed.Huseyin Nasir/Anadolu via Getty ImagesTurkey offered to rebuild Syria's demolished military.It's an opening to grow its influence with its southern neighbor and counter Iran."Turkey will likely try to fill Russia's role," a Middle East analyst told BI.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.Limited Turkish arms are inroads to bolstering the victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist movement in Syria, but Turkey will likely need financial support to pay for more extensive military rebuilding that could allow it to become the dominant foreign power in Syria, regional experts said."Turkey will likely try to fill Russia's role, including in relation to Israel," said Aron Lund, a fellow with Century International and a Middle East analyst at the Swedish Defense Research Agency.