... community finally ask questions about the actual composition of Syrian opposition groups: not just the fact that they suffered ... ... horrific internal dissension, but that there were far too many radical Islamists mixed in liberally with so-called “moderate ... ... areas infected by such radicalism. This is especially so in the Middle East, which Russia considers close enough to be a near backyard ... ... flank. And so here we sit with Russia as the new Chair of the Security Council. Ideally, this should lead to continuous engagement ...
Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners leaving the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State arises. While acquiring data and calculating accurate numbers wildly diverges from source to source, there is no doubt that ANY number simply makes countries like the United States uncomfortable and perplexed: in ...
... would think Iraq has already fallen completely into the hands of a radical Islamist terrorist group called ISIS. While it is true ... ... absence of diligence on the part of Western analysts covering the Middle East than by any miraculous strength of force on the part ... ... bolstered by the hardened fighters located largely in eastern Syria, where there has always been a heavy population of Sunni ... ... region but also perhaps as a direct threat to its own national security goals, given the open declarations from ISIS that it wants ...
