Epstein Secrets

hided the US repeatedly for handing Iraq to Iran on "a silver platter." The brazen attempt by the Al Qaeda—affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and The Levant, ISIL, to seize control of Mosul confirms the Saudis' worst fears about lingering EFTA00665425 instability in Iraq. The Obama administration will

d with what the Israeli analyst Orit Perlov describes as the two dominant Arab governing models: ISIS and SISI. EFTA00665418 ISIS, of course, is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the bloodthirsty Sunni militia that has gouged out a new state from Sunni areas in Syria and Iraq. SISI, of course, is Abdel Fat

hborhoods and an attack on Lebanese soldiers carrying out a raid in a Sunni neighborhood in Tripoli. It seems that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which recently renamed itself the Islamic State (IS), and/or its allies have turned their sights on Lebanon. This recent flurry of attacks

carrying out a raid in a Sunni neighborhood in Tripoli. It seems that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which recently renamed itself the Islamic State (IS), and/or its allies have turned their sights on Lebanon. This recent flurry of attacks in Hezbollah-friendly neighborhoods and in support of Sun

Syria, that they do='t get a broader foothold," Mr. Obama said on Friday, using an alternative name for the group, the Islamic State=in Iraq and the Levant. "There are dangers of fierce sectarian fighting =f, for example, the terrorist organizations try to overrun sacred Shia sit=s, which could trigger

ica's overseas wars. Yet as much as he w=nted Iraq in the rearview mirror, the swift march toward Baghdad by Islami=t extremists calling themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or IS=S, has forced him to reconsider his approach. As much as he wanted to leave the fate of Iraq to the Iraqis the=selves, he c

however important they are on the theoretical level, but rather the territorial integrity and sovereignty of these two pillars of stability in the Levant and the Gulf region. One of the major differences in the positions of Egypt and Saudi Arabia in this respect is how to perceive and deal with Iran

ian- Saudi meeting, Iraq, the Middle East and the whole world was jolted by the fall of Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city, to the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The threat of the territorial disintegration of Iraq and Syria has become real for the world. The Arab response to this

ia, ISIS would not be on the rampage. A plague on both their houses! It's unseemly to fight Washington's talk-show wars over the myriad dead of the Levant. The facts are plain enough. The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 because of its weapons of mass destruction program. However Iraq did not have a

ck back; by 2008, when their fury was largely spent, Sunnis were reduced to as little as 12 percent of the city's population. If the insurgents of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, enter Baghdad's residual Sunni neighborhoods, they will likely be welcomed, but they won't have much to work with, nor

arried out dozens of attacks in Afghanistan this year (2021] against civilians, officials and the Taliban themselves. The Taliban Are Far Closer to the Islamic State Than They Claim — Foreign Policy (26 August 2021) In an early sign of Afghanistan's dystopian future as well as a reminder of its dark past, a coord

itional name for the Central Asian and South Asian area that Afghanistan is part of, similar to the name al-Sham that the group used to refer to the Levant. Unlike the Afghan Taliban, whose focus remains on Afghanistan, Isis-K has repeatedly articulated its desire to attack the United Nations and wester