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In the run-up to the next round of talks on Syria scheduled for late January 2016, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov and the United States Secretary of State John Kerry have had far more contact than usual. The results of their meetings and telephone conversations ...
... Russia. The NATO-Russia Council, despite being a forum for consultation and airing grievances, was suspended, and Russia has been de facto expelled from the G8. Despite this, Russia continues to show its influence on critical international issues, with Syria being just the most recent example. After over two years of talking about the threat Russia poses and how the West can mitigate it, it is worthwhile to remind ourselves why the West, and in particular Europe, needs Russia. Four key issues stand ...
As far as groups in the Syrian conflict are concerned, it was Jaysh al-Islam, or the Army of Islam, and not the Islamic State or even Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch) who first officially declared war on Russia, or rather on its military presence in Syria. The ...
... war’. However, In spite of the political crisis and rising tensions between Russia and Euro-Atlantic region, the terroristic attacks in Paris on November are forcing the West and Russia to become allies in the fight against Islamic state of Iraq and Syria. Was it the opportunity for Putin to reconstruct geopolitical balance? The answer is definitely yes. However, Andrew Weiss (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) stated that: “Cooperation against terrorism between USA and Russia was ...
... need to fly significantly farther west. The Russian air force has made periodic flights in this direction, and in a well-known incident close to Denmark’s air boundary its planes were approximately equidistant from Danish and German airspace. Syria. The author understates the average number of flights by Russian aircraft. If we look at the number of sorties already flown – 5,600 against ground targets in the period from October to the first ten days of December 2015 – we get more ...
The crisis that erupted between Saudi Arabia and Iran recently has been brewing for years now. There is no arguing that the two countries have never been allies but since the start of the armed conflict in Syria they found themselves directly challenging each other’s interests. The diplomatic tension intensified even further when Saudi Arabia launched its Yemeni military campaign against the Houthis who enjoy wide support of Tehran. Riyadh’s ...
... the timeline, geography, facts, context, and history concerning the withdrawal and the rise of ISIS makes this abundantly clear and provable beyond any reasonable doubt. Ultimately, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's policies and the dynamics of Syria's raging civil war are the clear catalysts and drivers behind current crises with ISIS both in Syria and Iraq. By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) December 16th, 2015 Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse ...
The Book " History Of Syria - XX century ", by Elza Pir-Budagova, is an analysis of the development of Syria since the beginning of the First World War as one of the Vilayets of the Ottoman Empire until the coming to power of Bashar al-Assad in 2000. Special attention ...
... collapsed as a house of cards. Still, though the strategic partnership had been mostly imaginary, the losses appeared to be more than real. Today Turkey arguably feels more pain than Russia does. Grounding the Russian aircraft has not helped to protect the Syrian Turkmen population close to the Turkish border; on the contrary, Turkmen opposition groups are more vulnerable now than they were ever before. If the idea was to enforce a no-fly zone over a part of the Syrian territory, it worked the other way ...
... Middle East settlement in general. Turkey and Israel have far more interests and points of contact in common than they have grounds for confrontation. Immediately after the protest movement with standard demands for a change in political power reached Syrian territory in March 2011, Turkey got actively involved in the campaign to support the opponents of the ruling leadership in the Syrian Arab Republic. Erdogan clearly stated that “the events in Syria are turning into an internal affair for ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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