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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

“Rebel Unity” Fails Amid Aleppo’s Fall

What had once been called a “jewel of Syrian rebellion” by the West is now facing its collapse. Aleppo now stands to fall back to the Syrian government forces, and with is likely to come one of the biggest symbolic and territorial...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Curious Alliances Taking Place Amid Mosul Operation

As it always happens, a major military offensive in a country where multiple interests collide and converge, alliances take place. Some new are formed and some old suffer a set-back. Iraqi army’s operation in Mosul, the erstwhile...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Raqqa Operation is Aimed at Denying Syria Peace

Making a very interesting, yet a serious, move, the US has announced operation “Euphrates Anger”, to be conducted by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, a coalition of different US-backed militias, to re-take the city of Raqqa...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Israel is Becoming Pivotal to China’s Mid-Eastern Calculus

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Libya is a Complete Western Disaster, Finds a British Parliamentary Report

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The re-taking of Mosul: What’s the long the and short of it?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

On Putin-Erdogan Meeting in Syria—What is Happening

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The US ‘Plan B’ Means Non-Cooperation with Russia

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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