On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
Although the destabilization of the region is not a new phenomenon, the American invasion of Iraq at the turn of the century certainly came to be a catastrophic turning point.
The Geneva Talks and Syria in its Aftermath
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.
Russia in Syria
The error is that Russia will probably sink in the Syrian quagmire just as the United States sank in Iraq, and the elimination of "extremist takfiris groups" will take a very long time.
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
Subsequently, the group changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq and to Levant/Syria-ISIL/ISIS.
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
As a truly Hobbesian State, America had the military power to invade Irak on its own even if they tried, mostly for diplomatic reasons, to build the largest “coalition of the willing”: At the end, out of the 48 Nations officially supporting the Bush administration in its “war against terror”, only three nations (The United Kingdom, Australia and Poland) offered limited military support on the Iraqi front.
The Syrian Crisis and Turkey-EU Relations
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
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.
How the PKK Declined Peace Opportunities since Abdallah Ocalan’s 2013 Call
In addition, the contradiction between Öcalan and the PKK leadership in northern Iraq's Qandil Mountains has been there to be seen, carrying out bloody attacks while Öcalan called for PKK disarmament.
