... Middle East.
As was
noted
by Russian Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov, several northern Afghan provinces have militant training centers connected with various international terrorist groups. The latter are affiliated with the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, various ethnic groups (natives of Central Asian states and the Caucasus, Uighurs, Arabs).
Even Afghanistan’s formerly trouble-free north is subject to increasing chaos, as is confirmed by reports by various anti-government units
periodically ...
... contemporary issues of the Middle East and Muslims in the West. He is a professor and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean chair at Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. He is an author of 20 books. His latest
book
, “Beyond Chaos: The Crisis in the Mediterranean and the Middle East,” is an analysis of the present situation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean in a historical perspective from the October war of 1973 to the present. Dr. Kepel maps the development of the Islamization ...
... since sometimes tried to normalize Ankara-Moscow broken relations. For years he opposed Putin’s position on Syria, and he has given up the demand that Syrian dictator Assad must go. On the contrary, he agreed with Russia and Iran, to mutually fight ISIS and Al-Qaeda associate Al-Nusra movement. Furthermore, he pushed deeper to replace NATO military hardware, with Russian and Chinese military technologies. During his visit to Kremlin, he signed a deal to purchase S-400 air and missile defense system. Previously ...
... struggle against AQI. Weiss and Hassan lament that the challenge today is much tougher because the tribes mistrust Baghdad and with rare exceptions are unwilling to cooperate with the Shia militias against ISIL. They put the main blame for the current crisis on the former Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki. This position is at odds with the prevalent view in Russia that the IS phenomenon was entirely inspired from without.
REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
Ruslan Mamedov:
En Route to Useful Syria: Al-Qaeda Back in
the Game?
The authors believe however that Syria played a significant role in strengthening the AQI by using Islamists to achieve their own goals in the region. This is detailed in Chapter 7. After 2003 the Bashar Assad regime used Islamists ...
