... suffered a major blow due to Washington’s reluctance to stand by the Gulf states in Syria and more recently due to America’s decision to engage with Iran.
Reuters... ... officials are responsible for KSA’s foreign policy in war-torn regions of the Middle East, as well as for domestic security policy. Both Abu Dhabi and Manama sent... ... security architecture.”
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Nikolay Soukhov:
One Thousand and One Nights: Barack Obama
on Missile Defence in the Persian Gulf
Оne of the...
Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners leaving the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State arises. While acquiring data and calculating accurate numbers wildly diverges from source ... ... century, making its reach and scope far beyond anything the West could ever think plausible.
Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand the appeal of that small percentage willing to abandon the ...
Military aircraft in the Middle East conflicts
December 18, 2011 was a momentous day for the U.S. Air Force: ... ..., a terrorist group that sprang up in Iraq and achieved success in the civil war in Syria, success that enabled it to reformat itself, expand and get a new name –... ... contributed strong contingents are Great Britain and Australia.
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US Navy B-1B "Lancer" Bomber Aircraft
on a combat flight
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... and 30 thousand in Syria) fighting under the black banner of the Islamic State
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. According to Western media, around 3 thousand of them come from Europe, the United States and the former Soviet republics, including Russia (mostly from Chechnya), who ... ... State publishes its propaganda literature in five European languages, the number of people who have been recruited outside the Middle East is really impressive. At least 95 per cent of jihadists fighting against the Syrian government troops are not citizens of Syria.
The grouping has earned a reputation as one of the most violent Islamist organizations....
... extremist actions are causing alarm and anxiety in the West. The unabated conflict in Syria and fragile internal situation in Iraq are creating fertile ground for a strengthening... ... the West, particularly the United States, do next? Will the current alliances in the Middle East undergo any changes?
Vitaly Naumkin
, Doctor of History, Professor and... ... Washington's decision at the beginning of the military action in Syria coincide with the refusal of the United States to send troops to fight the Islamic State in Iraq?
So far...
Sohail Mahmood (Pakistan), Mehdi Dehnavi (Iran)
The recent extremist uprisings in the Middle East are one of the most alarming international news of this year. International community seems to fail with generating ... ...
The IS is spreading steadily its influence and is gaining support among people.
Countries at stake: fragile Iraq and turbulent Syria. Is the USA again at war with terrorist?
RIAC has gathered opinions from renowned foreign experts.
Dr Sohail Mahmood: The sudden rise ...
... military and strategic gains achieved by the group so far this year have been impressive and unexpected by leaders in the West, this lack of expectation may be accounted for more by the absence of diligence on the part of Western analysts covering the Middle East than by any miraculous strength of force on the part of ISIS. The ISIS movement in Iraq has been bolstered by the hardened fighters located largely in eastern Syria, where there has always been a heavy population of Sunni Muslims. The reality of life in Iraq, however, is that Sunnis do not dominate throughout the entire country and they are in fact a miniscule percentage in the capital city of Baghdad. Indeed,...
The Intelligence Community, regardless of regime type, has famously always tried to co-opt and ultimately adopt advancements and evolutions in technology, especially in terms of media. Newspapers, radio, and television have long been appropriated in order to influence, massage, and outright manipulate messages and events important to the national interest. Often the question is not so much whether a country’s intelligence community engages in such activity but rather how explicit and open will...
Though Syria has somewhat fallen off the media radar in the West because of a Malaysian plane crashing into the Indian Ocean and Crimean ... ... for Russia is to maintain global diplomatic significance and international influence, then maintaining relevance within the Middle East must be a crucial part of the master plan. Syria is by far the most convenient partner for Russia in this endeavor....
... experts and foreign policy scholars opined on the Obama Administration’s handling of foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, as lacking leverage, resolve, and long-haul strategy. Moreover, President Obama’s complex relationship with ... ... the world too reliant on the U.S. as an external authority in the times of crises. In his recent press statements regarding Syria, U.S. President Barack Obama stressed out that Washington is not, indeed, a global cop anymore. But “just as the state ...
