Phase one of the Russian campaign aims at depriving the West of interlocutors that could partake in a negotiated solution.
Tag: middle east
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Outside Tunisia, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize generated a great deal of praise and congratulations for the Tunisian people, mostly from Western nations’ leaders and media.
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French scholar Jean-Pierre Filiu’s latest book is a reminder that, no matter the attention paid the brutality of jihadist movements, the state retains greater capacity to inflict pain and suffering on citizens in Arab countries.
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Neither the PKK nor Ankara has an interest in returning to the damaging violence of the 90s, and even the current incidents of attacks and retaliation are damaging for Turkey at a time where the country faces early elections and finds itself increasingly vulnerable to violent spillover from the crises in Syria and Iraq.
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Turkey’s confrontation against ISIS, which appears to be gaining momentum, is also likely to coincide with a spike in anti-Kurdish operations.
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The fate of the Kurds is not entirely in their own hands, for true sovereign independence requires the recognition of other states.
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The optimism of the Assad regime of two years’ ago, when Hezbollah openly started fighting alongside the Syrian army, shows clear signs of fatigue.
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While ISIS’ goal of stoking sectarianism may have failed in Kuwait, its ability to infiltrate and conduct an attack in a country, which has experienced so little terrorist-related violence, is still a concern.
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The attacks come as the Saudis are embroiled in an increasingly drawn out and costly conflict against the Shiite Muslim Houthi group in Yemen and also involved in an air coalition led by the United States against ISIS in Syria.
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United Nations Special Envoy Terje Rød-Larsen has called on Lebanon’s parliament to elect a new president after 22 failed attempts.