... 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 ... ... the conflict between Turkey, Syria and the Kurds, and between Iraq and the Kurds, given Turkish, Syrian, and Iraqi option to ...
Despite the fact that Mosul has not been recaptured from the Islamic State, and the announced attack on Syria’s Raqqa has lost some momentum, there is little doubt that the fate of radical Islamists in Syria and Iraq is sealed. This makes the issue of the two countries’ postwar state structure particularly important. Who will take responsibility for the future of the two key Middle Eastern nations? How will they do so?
In early October 2016 Russia once again
vetoed
the French-drafted resolution on ...
Interests and opportunities
The Middle East has always had a special meaning for Russia. The area ... ... modernity.
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Boris Dolgov, Omar Mahmood:
The Syrian Conflict: Russian and GCC
Perspectives
Domestic developments ... ... even less manageable. Attempts to reestablish institutions in Iraq were only partially successful. Sectarianism turned to dominate ... ... was a cross-border activities of an extremist organization - the Islamic State. ISIS has positioned itself as a champion of a global ...
... mobilization, but the government also cannot avoid launching a major retribution. It might include more intensive attacks on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and a clearer and more coordinated allied strategy will certainly replace the rather haphazard attacks. Since France is ... ... effective response, Europe is likely to appeal to the United States, which has so far preferred to distance itself from the Middle East developments. Or, more precisely, minimized its involvement or limited it to anti-ISIS rhetoric.
It is now time the ...
Military aircraft in the Middle East conflicts
December 18, 2011 was a momentous day for ... ...
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 ... ... that sprang up in Iraq and achieved success in the civil war in Syria, success that enabled it to reformat itself, expand and get ...
... officers of the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein before the invasion of the United States and NATO in Iraq in 2003. However, the grouping very quickly became a center of attraction for jihadists of every stripe, migrating from among the countries of the Middle East, as well as of North, West and East Africa.
Currently, there are 80 thousand individuals (50 thousand in Iraq and 30 thousand in Syria) fighting under the black banner of the Islamic State
[3]
. According to Western media, around 3 thousand of them come from Europe, the United States and the former Soviet republics, including Russia (mostly from Chechnya), who have joined the ranks of the army of the just recently resurrected ...
Interview with Vitaly Naumkin
The frantic activity of the Islamic State and the growing number supporters of extremist actions are causing alarm and anxiety in the West. The unabated conflict in Syria and fragile internal situation in Iraq are creating fertile ground for a strengthening in the position of the Islamic State. What will the West, particularly the United States, do next? Will the current alliances in the Middle East undergo any changes?
Vitaly Naumkin
, Doctor of History, Professor and RIAC member, Director of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, shares his insights on the situation.
Will the fight against the Islamic State reshape the current alliances ...
