Putin plans to end Alawite hegemony in Damascus and evict pro-Iranian Shiite militias including Hizballah
Vladimir Putin has drawn up this plan for the Sochi conference. He will put it before Binyamin Netanyahu when they
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Sunnis
Saudi Attaches Price Tag for Building New Iraqi Army
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was the first high-ranking member of the Riyadh government to visit Baghdad in 17 years.
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Tough Chechen Commandos Find Job in Running Drinking Water to Damascus
The Chechen special ops troops (whose deployment to Syria was first disclosed by debkafile on Dec. 8 2016) arrived in
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The Mosul Operation May Mire the US in Regional Conflicts
The Mosul offensive, launched Monday, Oct. 17, is generally expected to be drawn-out and bloody. President Barack Obama, who staked
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Obama vs Baghdad on Sunni cleansing of Mosul
A major dispute on combat tactics which has sprung up between Washington and Baghdad hangs over the coalition’s Mosul offensive
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Iraq’s Partition Inches Forward with a New Baghdad Wall
As Iraq lurches from crisis to calamity, its disintegration into disparate regions and communities picks up speed. Baghdad is forging
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Ramadi’s “Conquest” Leaves Little to Celebrate. ISIS Is Still Around
In their eagerness for a major victory against the Islamic State, US officials this week hailed what they called the
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Kings Salman & Abdullah Plan to Redraw the Mid East Map to Contain and Shrink ISIS
For the first time in decades, the centuries-old royal banner of the Hashemite House of Jordan was unfurled in a
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ISIS Is Unstoppable in the Foreseeable Future – even if Obama Does Deliver a Complete Strategy
President Barack Obama frankly confessed Monday, June 8: “We don’t yet have a complete strategy [against ISIS] because it requires
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Obama Gives Iran Exclusive Carte Blanche for Fighting ISIS in Iraq
It looked at first as though US President Barack Obama had changed course and turned to the West for partners
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