A brief overview of the main groups and their leaders
A brief overview of the main groups and their leaders.
The authors described extremist organisations on multiple parameters, such as history, social base and numbers, activity region, leaders, ideology, financing, enemies and allies, stance on the Syrian ceasefire.
Project page:
http://russiancouncil.ru/en/syria-extremism
On November 24, 2015, RIAC and
International Discussion Club Valdai
presented analytical brief “
Islamic State: Alternative Statehood?
” described to the invited members of academia and media by its author Vasily Kuznetsov, PhD in History, Head of Center for Arabic and Islamic Research at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, who analyzed the ...
... to an increase in the activities of radical elements, whose actions take on a regional character, aggravating long-standing problems, including the Arab–Israeli confrontation. All this prompts the need for a comprehensive analysis of the actions of extremists since this will allow us, first, to identify the origins of crisis phenomenon, and second, to predict further developments in the region more accurately.
Project page:
http://russiancouncil.ru/en/extremism-mena