... hand and prevent the perception of this act as being a recognition of Mr. Assad’s legitimacy and Moscow’s rightful place at the table, on the other.
The White House and the Kremlin Strategizing
Many in Washington believe that the current Middle Eastern security system is far from adequate to prevent crises, as well as unable to establish stability and even a dialogue, among other things due to its “representative elitism.” In many cases dominated by the Gulf States, the Arab-driven ...
... ongoing in Jobar near Damascus, with accusations against Jaysh snowballing in relation to the disappearance of activists and human rights proponents, Razan Zeytoun being the most prominent figure.
Political Extremist Groups and Islamic
Movements in the Middle East and North Africa.
Main Groups and Leaders Brief Overview
Ideology is hardly an asset of Jaysh. In a video, Mr. Alloush mentions the rule of Banu Umayya, a clan of the Umayya Caliphate in the years 661-750. Under Caliph Abd al-Malik in 685-705,...
On January 21-22, 2016, the
Hoover Institution
at Stanford University held a Russian-American Workshop “US and Russian Perspectives on Transition in the Middle East.”
The Workshop was attended by former US Secretary of State George Schultz, former US Defense Secretary William Perry, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, as well as leading American experts on the Middle East, former government ...
... Arab unity, one of the main foreign policy priorities of the Syrian leadership during the second half of the twentieth century. The publication certainly helps put the current civil war in the context of historical development of Syria and the entire Middle East region.
The Book "History Of Syria - XX century", by Elza Pir-Budagova, is most relevant today, when the very existence of the SAP (Syrian Arab Republic -ed) in the form in which it was known for over a century, is in question. Throughout ...
... an evident deficit of the ability, courage and political will to look for and to find compromises and common denominators for the most fundamental problems pushing the two states apart from each other.
Over years serious disagreements over Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Ukraine, NATO, BMD, gas pipelines and other matters were swept under the rug. But this mutual hypocrisy could not last forever. In a way, the ongoing crisis became possible only because the notion of a strategic partnership between ...
... – members of four NGOs that contributed to the transition from Ben Ali’s authoritarian regime to a modern pluralist democracy. This choice should be recognized as politically correct and practically faultless. The world is focused on the Middle East. Tunisia stands out against that nightmarish background as a bright spot and the only country where the Arab Spring was relatively successful. (Many will say that the night is still young, but then it’s all the more imperative to make ...
... Mediterranean. The second priority is to prop up the Assad regime, whereas Russia’s counter-ISIL work is only a means to legitimize its approach to Syria.
РИА Новости / Дмитрий Виноградов
Irina Zviagelskaya:
Russia in a Changing Middle East
The tonality of Breedlove’s statement and its interpretation by many U.S. media indicate their willingness to discredit Russia and accuse it of “imperial ambition.” However, the idea for a country to protect its main attack ...
Interests and opportunities
The Middle East has always had a special meaning for Russia. The area provides access to the Mediterranean Sea, linking Russia with the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, North Africa. Any threat of war, a concentration of foreign armies,...
... poetic metaphor. In reality, we can only speak with some degree of certainty about two far closer forecasting horizons.
One is five or ten years away.
Let us assume that very soon somebody will win and somebody will lose the civil wars raging in the Middle East. Let us further assume that the conflicts that are tearing this world apart will be settled, or at least frozen, tomorrow or in a year’s time.
Then all the countries in the region would need about five years just to make up their minds ...
Review of the book ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Authors: Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan)
Review of the book
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
The emergence in the Middle East of a powerful terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) which managed to seize vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria within a little over a year, came as a surprise for the world public opinion and the media. It prompted ...
