Deal on Iran is Unlikely to Untie the Middle Eastern Knot
It was expected that reached with such difficulty in July of this year agreement between the "Six" international negotiators and Tehran would somewhat defuse the situation in the region and in the whole world. Iran had given a guarantee, of sorts, that it...
Turkish Authorities Offer a Unique Response to Islamist Attacks
As we know, on July 20, 2015 as a result of a suicide bombing in the village of Suruç which borders Syria, 32 people were killed and over 100 suffered injuries. A large part of those killed and injured were Turkish Kurds who were...
The Results of the Meeting of Representatives of the Countries of the Persian Gulf in the US
The widely publicized Summit of Gulf Arab countries in Washington held at a lower level than planned, because from the seven participants of the meeting, only three were represented by the heads of states...
Caliph is Dead, What's Next?
It has repeatedly been reported earlier that the leader of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was wounded and even killed. But this information was subsequently denied and the caliph appeared to be "very much alive". At this time a number of Iraqi and world media again reported...
Situation in Lebanon Against the Background of Crisis in Syria
Though the domestic political situation in Lebanon is relatively stable, its possible worsening in the near future should not be excluded. The interference of external forces and persistent split of the Lebanese society over...
Riyadh Tries on the Role of Regional Gendarme
The 2011-2015 “Arab spring” events have considerably weakened the acknowledged leaders of the Arab world: Egypt, Libya, thrown Syria and Iraq into civil wars, and created an atmosphere of general chaos and violence in the Middle East. Widely-known charismatic leaders...
Anatomy of ISIS and Possible Scenarios of its Evolution
Recently, the international media has been paying considerable attention to the coverage of the Islamic State’s (ISIS actions, replicating videos depicting parades of the jihadists with heavy weapons and military equipment, the atrocities against prisoners and...
Russia in the Fight Against Islamist Groups
Revitalization of radical Islamist groups across the world forces Russian leadership to take appropriate measures to counter this threat to both national and international security. Today, the so-called Islamic State, also known as ISIS, claims the role of the...
Will Turkmenistan Become a Shield in Jihadists’ Way?
After withdrawal of NATO’s forces from Afghanistan increasing radical Islamist activity is expected in that country and in the region as a whole. Washington and its Western allies failed to inflict any serious defeat on the Afghan Taliban movement, moreover, the latter could be...
Kurds at forefront in fight against Islamic State
Up until recently remaining neutral to the civil wars in Syria and Iraq, the Kurds, amidst the devastating offensive of the radical group "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS, have found themselves in the firing line and thus have had to take up arms to fight back...
Can the new Iraqi Prime Minister save the country from its final disintegration?
After lengthy consultations with all the political blocs and factions within the Iraqi parliament, Iraq’s President, Fuad Masum, appointed Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister on August 11, 2014 and requested that...
Iraq has finally found a president
After parliamentary elections in March 2014, Iraq has, for the longest time, failed in attempts to form a legislative and executive branch of government which has resulted in a new protracted internal political crisis (and as we well know, after parliamentary elections in 2010...