... institutional continuity with a certain ideologist background still can be seen.
Alexander Mamaev:
Cyber Caliphate: What Apps Are the Islamic State Using?
Although ISIS has been seriously weakened and lost control over territories and resources, it retains the ... ... extensive system of tunnels, which the terrorists have been developing for years, help the remaining militants hole up near the Syria-Iraq border and conduct attacks on both governmental forces and the SDF Kurds. Suicide attacks against the Syrian Arab Army continue,...
... Coalition be able to forge a common strategy? Are the states involved in the conflict more interested in defeating the Islamic State or in overthrowing the al-Assad regime?
Can there be a military “solution” to the global war on terrorism? Will the Islamic State movement really be destroyed in Iraq and Syria? Or will it simply drift like a nomad to other regions, into the Russian Caucasus, North Africa, Egypt and the Sinai, southwest Asia and Afghanistan, as well as Kashmir?
How will the entry of the Islamic State into Afghanistan impact the ongoing ...
... Iraq and Syria. Moreover, most authorities own lists of suspects and particular numbers of ISIS militants who have travelled to Syria and Iraq. Additionally, cross-borders and free movement including logistic capacities will be more and more difficult.
5.
Lone wolves ... ... growing popularity of right-wing organisations and parties in Europe will affect radicalisation of alienated Muslim converts.
Islamic State Volunteers
Recruitment and return
The leading jihadist organisations such as Al Qaeda and
ISIS have expressed their ...
... government in the country. The official representative of the Kurdistan regional government in Russia has
revealed
the fact that the Islamic State still enjoys the support of many Mosul inhabitants. The IS is winning the support of the rest of the population ... ... well as of the eastern part of Aleppo) is inevitable. This begs the question about the next target. Following the liberation of Iraqi Mosul,
it is planned to recapture Syria’s Raqqa
– the second major stronghold of IS militants. At the same time, the Americans do not plan any involvement ...
... Muslims largely fell in line with their ideology.
The blasts in Turkey on June 28 and Saudi Arabia on July 4 were different in that the Islamic State was targeting Sunnis, the very sect the group appeals to in its videos and statements.
Reuters
Map of Iraq and Syria showing the areas
controlled by Islamic State
Muslims around the world condemned these attacks and even some Sunni extremist groups rushed to speak against the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State which speaks volumes about the lengths it is ready to go for the sake of advancing ...
... also some Shia countries (e.g., Yemen, Lebanon and Bahrain) have been invited to join the coalition," without Iran and Iraq "this coalition cannot be called viable and efficient anyway."
According to him, the success of the fight against ... ... defence minister, told a news conference that the campaign would "coordinate" efforts to fight terrorism in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan, but declined to elaborate. "There will be international coordination with major powers ...
... caliphate. Its activists denounce and condemn the Arab national movements and states. The Islamic State has huge resources and ideological appeal, control vast territories, and... ... the Middle East states motivated by a regime change goal. The toppling of dictators (Iraq, Lybia) has resulted in chaos, new waves of migration and the emergence of new... ... opposition should be renounced.
EPA / YOUSSEF BADAWI / Vostock Photo
Georgi Asatrian:
The Syrian Zugzwang
Second, Russia was ready to proceed with a new activist policy in the...
On
November 13, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, backed by US airstrikes, retook the Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, located on the Road 47, about 60 miles from Mosul and 120 miles from Raqqa, in Syria, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The Iraqi Kurdish forces lost the control of the city in August 2014, during an overwhelming assault launched by the jihadists who were eventually stopped in their expansion by US airstrikes, and the subsequent creation of the ...
... marching for solidarity in January after the killings at the office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine might have mimicked national mobilization, but the government also cannot avoid launching a major retribution. It might include more intensive attacks on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and a clearer and more coordinated allied strategy will certainly replace the rather haphazard attacks. Since France is unlikely to rally enough capabilities, even with the help of major European countries, for an effective response, Europe is ...
... replaced by the "right" people?
Russia's diplomatic and material support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been universally condemned by western governments... ... President Assad has blood on his hands – lots of it. So did Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Both these dictators were endorsed and armed by western... ... internally displaced. Western Europe is inundated with assylum-seekers. The barbaric Islamic State organization has flourished.
Like the Saddam, Gaddafi, and Mubarak regimes...
