... Europe, are on the losing side of the conflict in Syria and this automatically limits leverage
During ... ... constitution talks, how the U.S. is exerting pressure on Iran via sanctions and what the EU and Russia have ... ... policy towards the region.
On October 26, 2019, the Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and ... ... his death and what consequences could that have for ISIS and international terrorism as a whole?
Andrey ... ... main priority now is to resolve the issue for thousands of ISIS fighters and affiliates, as well as ...
... — Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Syrian vortex of death, and Russia’s role in ... ... taking a responsible and leading role in combating ISIS and preserving state sovereignty/the world order; ... ... Catholic Europe will be sending holy warriors in a crusade to fight Orthodox Russia’s attempts to ... ... office now who campaigned on the fact that invading Iraq in 2003 was a colossal mistake, who, keeping this ... ... by Alawate Shiites. It is backed by Shiite Persian Iranians and the Arab Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah....
A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy: The Syrian Civil War
Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been ... ... largest and deadliest. Here, as in other situations, we have a crisis in which we must be careful not to blame Obama too much but ... ... and, unlike Qaddafi’s, had strong patrons in Russia and Iran who would complicate and increase the costs of any Western ... ... no-fly-zones, and the U.S. specifically partnering with its allies Iraq and (NATO member) Turkey to use drones, reconnaissance flights,...
... a residual force would have been better but that is 100% on Maliki not granting immunity and having already committed to his Iranian allies that he would see our troops out in 2011. We will come to ISIS (and Obama’s mild military reengagement in Iraq) and Syria as separate issues.
Israeli/Palestinian Peace
Here, one may be tempted to make more of the efforts of the Obama Administration ... ... Israel announced the construction of 1,600 settlement housing units to be built on illegally occupied, disputed land in East Jerusalem (which was occupied in 1967 along with the West Bank and Gaza and which Israel has held in defiance of multiple binding ...
How the Obama Administration Removed Iraq’s Largest Political Obstacle
Originally ... ... especially in Iraq’s western Anbar province on Syria’s border, saw the defeat of al-Qaeda in ... ... Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/the Levant/al-Sham (ISIS or ISIL) and now just Islamic State (IS) might ... ... among the reasons, ISIS was murdering and abusing thousands in ways that even al-Qaeda thought went too ... ... strengthen an Iraqi government that was in line with Iran in many ways and had resisted accommodating the ...
