... wreak death and corruption on earth and aim to terrorise the innocent."
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince and 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 and international organizations ... in terms of operations in Syria and Iraq. We can't undertake these operations without ...
... champion of a global project - the 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 unites supporters from around the world.... ... use of intervention to support the opposition should be renounced.
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Georgi Asatrian:
The Syrian Zugzwang
Second, Russia was ready to proceed with a new activist policy in the region which was to prove its indispensability ...
... Bundeswehr mission, stipulating lending aid to France, Iraq and a US-led coalition aimed at combating terrorist organization Islamic State (outlawed in Russia), Article 51 of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations Organization, ensuring the ... ...
Such a spontaneous measure of the German Government in the absence of the UNSC’s mandate for military intervention into Syria or the relevant official request for help of the Syria leader raises serious questions at the very least.
Apart from that,...
... throwing up many more nuances in relations between the allies Washington and Riyadh.
Well aware of the Washington's foreign policy rules, Riyadh decided to increase its U.S. lobbying USD 3.66 billion.
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Boris Dolgov, Omar Mahmood:
The Syrian Conflict: Russian and GCC
Perspectives
The U.S. allies largely share the same needs, i.e. security guarantees plus more aggressive political and military support for their regional interests and initiatives. However, the U.S. seems to have lost ...
... thousand individuals
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. Tens of thousands of them are foreign mercenaries, with extremists from more than 80 countries, including Muslim states, the EU, the US, Russia and China (Muslim Uighurs) making up the majority. This situation has turned Syria into a hot-bed for radical Islamism, with its most extremist representative, the Islamic State, aiming to expand into the territories of neighboring countries and to create a “caliphate” there.
Political Extremist Groups and Islamic
Movements in MENA Region
At the end of September 2015, the Russian Air Force started to ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... problem, and echoes of the Arab Spring protests still in the air, the collapse of the Jordanian state and regime is highly unlikely.
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The regionwide upheavals that shook the Arab world in 2011, as well as the collapse of state structures in Iraq and Syria precipitated by the rise of the Islamic State (IS) invite us to reflect on the current situation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which has managed to remain relatively stable amidst the stormy waters of Middle Eastern politics. In the past, the Jordanian state and the ruling Hashemite ...
... to official statements, Russia deployed its Aerospace Defence Forces to support Bashar al-Assad in order to combat the ISIS terrorist group. Western leaders have subtly hinted that Moscow’s goal is to save al-Assad and protect its interests in Syria. The Ukrainian elite and its supporters in the US and Europe are convinced that Putin has started a war in Syria to distract international attention from his “aggression” in Ukraine
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. In fact, the Russian operation is not only part ...
... relations between Russia and the European Union.
Participants suggested that waging war against a common foe in the form of Islamic State, which is banned in Russia, is unlikely to help Russia and the West overcome their differences. Today, this relationship ... ... only deepen the ongoing crisis. And the document seems ever more significant against the backdrop of Russia’s campaign in Syria, where an international coalition with NATO participation also operates.
Of course, an incident involving Russian and NATO ...
