... incapable or unwilling to properly identity their alleged employers and customers.
One of the most popular versions regarding the latter, which is now in broad circulation in the West, links the terrorist attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, an organization recognized as terrorist and its activities banned in the Russian Federation). This version is based on the assumption that ISIS or, more specifically, ISIS-K (the Khorasan branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan) has ...
The growing instability in Afghanistan provides ISIS with an opportunity to regain a territorial base it had lost in the Middle East
The article was originally published in Russian on August, 10—before the hasty U.S. military withdrawal and the subsequent takeover of the country and its government ...
As long as this region is not stabilized, ISIS will continue to emerge and re-emerge
Professor Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, President of the Middle East Research Institute, shares his thoughts on security issues for the Middle East.
Andrey Kortunov, Michel Duclos:
Helping Iran to Make the Right Choice ...
... Washington and Moscow, we are, thankfully, very far from an emergency of the type of the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or even the 1984 collision between the US plane carrier
Kitty Hawk
and the K-314 Soviet submarine in the Sea of Japan. ... ... Intelligence Studies. An award-winning professor, Dr. Fitsanakis has lectured, taught and written extensively on subjects such as international security, intelligence, cyberespionage, and transnational crime. He is a syndicated columnist and frequent contributor ...