Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts | Archaeology | The Guardian:
“These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined.
It adds an international dimension to those sites. We have looked at the Anglo-Saxons in a rather insular manner.”