After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime it seemed as if Iraq was forced out of the zone of Russia's interests. Even Iraqi Kurdistan, despite the long-standing close Kurdish relations with Moscow, saw the United States as their only strategic partner to whom they were...

Iraq has become yet another burning trouble spot in the Middle East that weighs on everyone and is a threat to both regional and global security. Today in Iraq a number of different axes of confrontation meet, those axes that can easily be...

Can ideology and pragmatism walk hand in hand, as was at one time claimed by the Muslim Brotherhood, or would this inevitably result in a conflict of interest that could lead to an eruption the likes of which we witnessed in Egypt? Everything that is currently taking place in Egypt is not...

At present we are witnessing an escalation of tension around the Syrian conflict, but Syria itself hasn't got much to do with it. The Western powers don't seem to care all that much about Syria and the fate of its people. The Syrian fate is of utmost importance to its regional neighbors who have...