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North Caucasus — a Wall Against or a Bridge for IS?

... potential domestic implications of the IS challenge are a major and a very genuine driver of its approach to IS in and beyond the Middle East. This has already led Russia to introduce criminal punishment for taking part in armed groups abroad (with 250 such ... ....pdf 6 . http://tass.ru/glavnie-novosti/679589 7 . http://tass.ru/en/world/778834 8 . http://www.ng.ru/ideas/2015-03-06/5_crisis.html 9 . http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-tatar-jailed-for-fighting-in-syria/26751237.html 10 . http://www.interfax....

03.07.2015

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The Islamic State and Chechnya: Disturbing Similarities

... its predecessor, Al-Qaeda, establishing control over a large territory in northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria, and creating proto-state institutions of authority. This reality is especially disturbing for the United States, which is bound by its Middle Eastern network of alliances to deter ISIS, but at the same time suffers from a twelve-year war-weariness and is not ready to conduct a full-scale counter-terrorist operation. Still, even more disturbing is the evidence of how similar the current instability in Iraq and Syria is with the ...

11.11.2014

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