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DAESH: Documenting a Modern Heresy, Interview with Belkıs Kılıçkaya

While studying foreign fighters’ portraits, I found myself focusing on Afghanistan: from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to the Taliban and to the US invasion in the aftermath of 9/11.

Turkey’s ISIS Problem

FinanceBy Murat Yeşiltaş

Significant losses on the side of ISIS last year are likely to have influenced its command structure to implement a new exit plan, which in turn will prepare the ground for ISIS terror groups in other countries such as Libya or Afghanistan.

The European Paradox: Between Islamophilia and Islamophobia

FinanceBy Philippe Barbe

The terror attacks against the United States of America on September 11th 2001 and the following wars in the Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq and, more recently, Syria) have proven that, far from ending, history is “alive and well” and accelerating on a dangerously unpredictable path.

The US Army Special Forces in Syria

FinanceBy Necdet Özçelik

In nation creation efforts, the US avoids the deployment of large units of US soldiers on the ground, but entrusts the war effort to local, indigenous, armed opposition, as it did in Afghanistan against Soviet invasion during the 1980s.

What is Sectarian Politics?

FinanceBy Kemal İnat

For example, Salafi organizations supported by Saudi Arabia and radical Shiite groups backed by Iran play a pivotal role in sectarian clashes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes

InterviewBy Serhan Afacan

Interestingly, if the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan succeeded, there are indications that the Soviets would re-organize Afghanistan as a multi-ethnic federation by, possibly, annexing the Turkmen and Uzbek parts to Uzbek and Turkmen Soviet Socialist republics and re-organize the rest as Pashtun, Khazara and other ethnically defined socialist republics.

The Geneva Talks and Syria in its Aftermath

FinanceBy Kemal İnat

Finding the opposition fighting against the Assad regime too “Islamic”, the US is engaged in efforts to create an artificial armed group that is in line with its own interests as done previously in Afghanistan and Iraq.

ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited

FinanceBy M. Hilmi Özev

in Afghanistan? Can we understand the emergence of ISIL without Al-Qaida and the U.

Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”

FinanceBy Philippe Barbe

On the international front, The United States of America heavily bombed Afghanistan that was harboring Al-Qaeda and invaded Irak in 2003 (without the authorization of the United Nations) whereas France immediately intensified its bombing of the so-called and self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (I.

The Syrian Crisis and Turkey-EU Relations

OpinionBy Beril Dedeoğlu

The Syrian Civil War has begun in 2011 during the process called the "Arab Spring" which has destabilized an immense geography from Libya to Afghanistan, passing from Egypt, Yemen, and Iraq.

Downing of the Russian Jet, the Syrian Civil War and Turkish-Russian Relations

WorldBy Şener Aktürk

However, with the Russian and the Iranian military, along with thousands of foreign fighters from Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon flooding to Syria to rescue the Assad regime, a military solution to the conflict seems unlikely in the near future.

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