... Europeans and Russia generally agree on the need to control the Islamic State. However, there has been a significant lack of coordination ... ... Then, in early April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military had allegedly ... ... Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear accord with Iran impact U.S. Missile Defense deployments in Europe — particularly ... ... the conflict between Turkey, Syria and the Kurds, and between Iraq and the Kurds, given Turkish, Syrian, and Iraqi option to ...
... denounce and condemn the Arab national movements and states. The Islamic State has huge resources and ideological appeal, control ... ... motivated by a regime change goal. The toppling of dictators (Iraq, Lybia) has resulted in chaos, new waves of migration and ... ... renounced.
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Georgi Asatrian:
The Syrian Zugzwang
Second, Russia was ready to proceed with a new ... ... as a major international player. Hence, it's policy vis-a-vis Iranian nuclear program and its intervention in Syria.
Third objective ...
...
as part of
Operation New Dawn
, the final phase of the second Iraq War that began in 2003. For the first time since the start ... ... August 8, 2014 two U.S. Navy carrier-based jet fighters
struck Islamic State artillery units
near Erbil, marking the start of ... ... Apocalypse has not left these lands at least from the start of the Iran–Iraq war in 1980. Only the protagonists change (with ... ... that sprang up in Iraq and achieved success in the civil war in Syria, success that enabled it to reformat itself, expand and get ...