Review of the book ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Authors: Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan)
Review of the book
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
The emergence in the Middle East of a powerful terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) which managed to seize vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria within a little over a year, came as a surprise for the world public opinion and the media. It prompted a spate of books whose authors try to sort out the phenomenon. In an introduction ...
... and both agree that the Syrian "moderate" rebels ought to be helped in their fight against the Syrian Army loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, the expert explained.
Sending arms and funding to Syrian opposition rebels won't help to eliminate ISIL, Kortunov said.
The situation in Syria is very complicated. One can't claim that Syrian opposition rebels, supported by the US government, don't fight ISIL. They do, as everyone is fighting everyone in Syria right now.
However, there were documented ...
... terrorism threatens to spread throughout the world, using religious rhetoric as a cover.
On June 29, 2014, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, the jihadist organization the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared the establishment of a caliphate on Iraqi and Syrian territory controlled by its militants
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. On the same day, in accordance with Sharia law, supporters of the Iraqi division of al-Qaeda announced that one of founders of the Islamic ...
Interview with Alexander Aksenyonok
Interview
Breakneck developments in Iraq after the intrusion of the Islamic State movement have triggered a chain of tragic events and radical changes in the Iraqi political arena. We asked Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alexander Aksenyonok, PhD in Law, to comment on prospects in the near future and on the consequences of Baghdad's political decisions.
Your Excellency, last week Haider al-Abadi, deputy speaker of parliament, was appointed prime...
The Caliphate Threat
Counteracting the attempts of the Islamic State group to seize Iraq has become a test case for possible U.S.-Iranian cooperation. And this test case has, by and large, failed.
The idea of a ”major deal” struck between the United States and Iran has recently been losing support. This is partly due to the fact that U.S.-Iranian talks on the nuclear issue are very difficult to push forward. The Iranians want their own uranium enrichment capacity, as the Russia-Iran...
The Rise and Fall of the Turkish “Trading State” in the Middle East: Increasing Cooperation and Regional Integration Following the Arab Spring
Upon the rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) to power in 2002, Turkey embarked on an activist foreign policy in the Middle East. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu, who was previously Prime Minister Erdoğan’s chief foreign policy adviser, argued in his famous book Strategic Depth that the Middle East was a natural environment...
ISIL or al-Qaeda 2.0?
On June 10, 2014, Iraq was shattered by yet another political earthquake, raising the possibility of another Afghanistan located right in the heart of the Middle East. Within just a very small number of days, the terrorist organization ...