... in the region, terrorism threatens to spread throughout the world, using religious rhetoric as a cover.
On June 29, 2014, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, the jihadist organization the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared the establishment of a caliphate on Iraqi and Syrian territory controlled by its militants
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. On the same day, in accordance with Sharia law, supporters of the Iraqi division of al-Qaeda announced that one of founders of the Islamic ...
Interview with Alexander Aksenyonok
Interview
Breakneck developments in Iraq after the intrusion of the Islamic State movement have triggered a chain of tragic events and radical changes in the Iraqi political arena. We asked Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alexander Aksenyonok, PhD in Law, to comment on prospects ...
The Caliphate Threat
Counteracting the attempts of the Islamic State group to seize Iraq has become a test case for possible U.S.-Iranian cooperation. And this test case has, by and large, failed.
The idea of a ”major deal” struck between the United States and Iran has recently been losing support. This is partly due to the ...
... excessive casualties among civilians. Prime Minister
Recep Erdogan did not hesitate to say
that since the Iraqi army has left its position in the north of the country, the situation has become a war between confessions rather than a war between the ISIL and the Iraqi government, a Sunni-Shiite war that he would neither accept nor approve.
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Gevorg Mirzayan:
Iraq Continues to Disintegrate
The marked aggravation of the explosive situation is questioning the very existence of the new Iraqi state ...
