... the global conjuncture and previous trends
Transformational processes in the Arab world in the beginning of the 2010s led Russia and Turkey to an understanding of the need to form new foreign policy approaches towards the Middle East. This article ... ... coalition invading Afghanistan and Iraq, and also due to a series of nationhood crises in the region and the Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran rivalries. The general belief is that Israel is the only country in the region that possesses nuclear weapons, while ...
... beginning of a new stage of the Middle East crisis. They prompted the involvement of Israel and Lebanon in the Syrian conflict and revealed a tendency of establishing new... ... with our brothers in Syria and take care of them. If need be,
we will destroy
the Islamic State and Dzhabhat al-Nusra. “Tzahal will soon go into Syria and take... ... administrative ones. As a result, the plans of Americans and of Israelis may not coincide.
Russia and the Druze
Due to historical reasons, Moscow has comparatively weak contacts...
... confronted with the difficult task of resisting jihadists both from the outside (the Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front) and from the inside, amidst unstable legislative... ... 25.02.2015
). However, the situation became even more complicated due to the “Israeli factor.” On January 18, 2015, well-planned Israeli airstrikes against... ... on the other (See:
Middle East and the Present
, # 34, 2008, pp. 267–290
[in Russian]). It is the largest refugee camp, giving shelter to up to 50 thousand Palestinians...
