For example, in the wake of the murder of a Turkish citizen in Ankara by a young Syrian, many social media users in Turkey attacked refugee rights in the country with the hashtag "we don't want refugees," knowing that the ruling party opened the border to Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war.
However, Iran’s allies in Panjshir have been all but wiped out, and its Shia Hazara militia proxies in the Fatemiyoun Brigades who served with such bloody distinction in killing Syrian civilians are also in no position to fight Afghanistan’s new rulers – at least not yet.
(99) The pandemic also allowed authorities in Lebanon and China to impose stricter regulations on refugees from Syria and Africa respectively, and indulge in discriminatory practices where local citizens were made to adhere to a different set of precautionary rules.
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ISIS-K and their objectives
The Islamic State Khorasan Province, also known as Daesh Khorasan, ISIS-K, ISKP, is an official affiliate of the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, as acknowledged by its central leadership in Iraq and Syria.
Both Moscow and Cairo share similar views on regional political issues – the most outstanding being their support of the Assad regime in Syria and Khalifa Haftar in Libya.
The 2012 US withdrawal from Iraq, its ‘leadership from behind’ in Libya, its non-committal policy in Syria, among others, were all indicators pointing to the inescapable fact that Israel could no longer count on the blind and unconditional American support alone.
Read: GCC-Damascus Rapprochement Can Pit Syria Against Turkey Even FurtherFueling concerns about foreigners taking jobs, a news story on May 18 revealed that 38,000 foreign workers had been employed in the private sector over the past year, while between 2020 and 2021, some 6,700 Omanis were laid off from jobs in the private sector.
There are fierce political confrontations in the Eastern Mediterranean such as the well-known Palestine issue, the Cyprus issue, as well as the uneasy political relations between Greece and Turkey, Egypt and Turkey, Syria and Turkey, Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon.
wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan were meant to fight and uproot terror, how is it possible that, in June 2014, an erstwhile unknown group calling itself the ‘Islamic State’ (IS), managed to flourish, occupy and usurp massive swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territories and resource under the watchful eye of the U.
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