Is there even anything in the map or is it full april fools?

Although your suggestions all sound very nice and I'd love it all to be possible in the game, with the 1:19 scale I'm afraid nothing of it will fit in the map

No I think he means the Dutch A7, which becomes the German A280 at the border and ends at the German A31.

Yes, and horizon was the developer that made Iraq in the first place too. A new city in Iraq would be very far from what is already in the map though. Al-Qa'im, Nukhayd and Ramadi are the closest to Ar-Rutbah and they are all over 200 km from Ar-Rutbah and they would all be dead ends. Syria would ma...

Because there is a Syrian flag i'd guess Homs or An-Nabk. That is only because connecting the two parts of Syria makes sense, I do not know the region well enough to say something else about it.

what is added in this new version?

No, Maghreb Map adds parts of Morocco, Algeria and Tunesia. TR extended adds things in Istanbul.

Platypus, when you say next release, do you mean 2.51, 2.55 or 2.60? The main promods pack usually doesn't get new content in updates like 2.51 of 2.55, but it seems like that if the main pack gets more content it doesn't necessarily mean that the add-on gets more content and vise versa. So therefor...