... expand by recruiting brothers, training them in the Middle East or Pakistan, and sending them back to Europe ... ...
which was pre-millenarian. By the same token, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi independently developed a form of jihad ... ... sectarian. He was far more focused on killing Shias than westerners, targeting the heretics before the real ... ... With this support, they established a network in Syria and Iraq which eventually became the Caliphate.... ... boots on the ground: the 2015 JCPOA agreement allowed Russia to increase presence in Syria and send forces ...
How can Moscow respond to a possible US strike on Syria?
The aggravation of rivalry between Russia and the West in the past few months is raising the urgent question of a possible further escalation of tensions and its forms and consequences.... ... sanctions but Brussels carefully avoided any escalation of sanctions for “promoting propaganda and undermining democracy,” an accusation that is hard to verify but easy to turn into a conflict-prone and provocative form. We might dislike Robert Mueller’s ...
... clear in 2014, which was marked by the abrupt transformation of Russia’s relations with the outside world. This was also ... ...
The era of security is a thing of the past for Europe and the West as a whole. The twenty years since the end of the Cold War ... ... but have neither the time nor enough self-restraint for this. In Syria, Russia and the United States found themselves on the brink ... ... cleared the air. The West has to take Russia into account in the Middle East, but will not become its strategic ally or even a partner ...