Search: Middle East,Extremists (2 materials)

Anti-government extremist organizations in Syria

A brief overview of the main groups and their leaders A brief overview of the main groups and their leaders. The authors described extremist organisations on multiple parameters, such as history, social base and numbers, activity region, leaders, ideology, financing, enemies and allies, stance on the Syrian ceasefire. Project page: http://russiancouncil.ru/en/syria-extremism

15.11.2016

RIAC Hosts Presentation of Valdai Club Paper “Islamic State: Alternative Statehood?”

... of settling key MENA problems. Opening remarks were made by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and Valdai Academic Director Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine and RIAC member, who said that “events in the Middle East will have far-reaching consequences and even specialists are just arriving at realization of the fact.” The presentation was followed by a debate with participation of Research Fellow at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies Vladimir Sazhin,...

24.11.2015

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