... 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 ... ... Poland and Romania, as well as in Japan, South Korea, and the Middle East.
How might the 2013 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 ...
Interests and opportunities
The Middle East has always had a special meaning for Russia.... ... with different players in the Middle East, including Iran, Israel, a number of Arab states, Hamas and Hezbollah.... ...
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Boris Dolgov, Omar Mahmood:
The Syrian Conflict: Russian and GCC
Perspectives
Domestic ... ... manageable. Attempts to reestablish institutions in Iraq were only partially successful. Sectarianism turned ... ... cross-border activities of an extremist organization - the Islamic State. ISIS has positioned itself as a champion ...
Military aircraft in the Middle East conflicts
December 18, 2011 was a momentous ... ...
Operation New Dawn
, the final phase of the second Iraq War that began in 2003. For the first time since ... ... two U.S. Navy carrier-based jet fighters
struck Islamic State artillery units
near Erbil, marking the ... ... not left these lands at least from the start of the Iran–Iraq war in 1980. Only the protagonists ... ... in Iraq and achieved success in the civil war in Syria, success that enabled it to reformat itself, ...
