... working for the Kurds and the Americans. However, the terrorist command structure dated back to the times of the US occupation of Iraq (back then, al-Qaeda in Iraq) has shown ability in surviving and adapting to changes even before the creation of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham in 2014. The announcement of the Caliphate and emergence of “Caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (who seems to be existing regardless of time and space) brought minor changes in the roles of the group leaders. Even despite the elimination of ...
... against it interfered with the Russia-Iraq weapons relationship. Then, after the US-led coalition’s overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq got most of its weapons from the United States.
Ambassador of Iraq to Russia: the War against Islamic State in Iraq is Won
Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has been trying to gradually rebuild its ties with Iraq on numerous levels. Moscow sees Iraq’s May 12 parliamentary elections as an opportunity to breathe new life into relations to create a comprehensive ...
... warfare between non-state entities (other than state and non-state conflicts), and the transition from conventional methods and means of war to advanced technological tactics pursued even by non-state actors, including armed extremist groups such as Islamic State, are indicative of this conceptual shift. The change has been also reflected in the tactics of war, as evidenced by the Kurdish armed forces in Iraq. This environment compelled the
peshmerga
to confront a new type of irregular warfare as an interesting case of an organised non-state military force. The war against Islamic State united the
peshmerga
forces for, possibly, the first time and effected ...
... Coalition be able to forge a common strategy? Are the states involved in the conflict more interested in defeating the Islamic State or in overthrowing the al-Assad regime?
Can there be a military “solution” to the global war on terrorism? Will the Islamic State movement really be destroyed in Iraq and Syria? Or will it simply drift like a nomad to other regions, into the Russian Caucasus, North Africa, Egypt and the Sinai, southwest Asia and Afghanistan, as well as Kashmir?
How will the entry of the Islamic State into Afghanistan impact the ...
... Syria. Moreover, most authorities own lists of suspects and particular numbers of ISIS militants who have travelled to Syria and Iraq. Additionally, cross-borders and free movement including logistic capacities will be more and more difficult.
5.
Lone wolves ... ... growing popularity of right-wing organisations and parties in Europe will affect radicalisation of alienated Muslim converts.
Islamic State Volunteers
Recruitment and return
The leading jihadist organisations such as Al Qaeda and
ISIS have expressed their ...
... humanitarian aid delivery in Syria.
Battle to recapture Mosul
Reuters
Ruslan Mamedov:
Political Crisis in Iraq and Region after IS.
Interview with former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad
Allawi
In mid-October 2016,
the beginning of the offensive to recapture Iraqi Mosul from the Islamic State was announced
. How long this battle can last is anybody’s guess. the US government does not know, no matter how handy the capture of the capital of the self-proclaimed Caliphate might have been amidst the presidential election in ...
On June 29, 2014, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the head of what was then known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, proclaimed the establishment of the Caliphate. Two years on, in summer 2016, the Islamic State celebrated its “birthday” with a spate of terror strikes.
The Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed Al Adnani released a statement ...
... terrorism", the Federation Council official wrote on his Facebook page.
Kosachev said that although "not only the Sunni, but also some Shia countries (e.g., Yemen, Lebanon and Bahrain) have been invited to join the coalition," without Iran and Iraq "this coalition cannot be called viable and efficient anyway."
According to him, the success of the fight against international terrorism "now depends on the willingness and ability of the countries facing the common threat to pool ...
... defeat of Iraqi military machine and the new balance of political forces in Iraq have led to the consolidating of Iran's role in Iraq, in the Gulf and beyond, of its claim to leadership in the Middle East and in the Muslim world. Even more obvious was the ... ... marked by a deep split in the Sunni camp. The reason of it was a cross-border activities of an extremist organization - the Islamic State. ISIS has positioned itself as a champion of a global project - the caliphate. Its activists denounce and condemn ...
On
November 13, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, backed by US airstrikes, retook the Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, located on the Road 47, about 60 miles from Mosul and 120 miles from Raqqa, in Syria, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The Iraqi Kurdish forces lost the control of the city in August 2014, during an overwhelming assault launched by the jihadists who were eventually stopped in their expansion by US airstrikes, and the subsequent creation of the ...
