Terrorism as phenomena has dominated World of security studies, discussions of security studies used to entail discussion of Power dynamics of European powers or of the consequences of new power centers like China in Asia or Israeli presence in the ...
President Trump’s announcement that the United States will withdraw its forces from Syria comes at a critical moment for the region, as the different actors involved in the war prepare for the post-conflict political order in Syria and as the ...
The Turkish president is threatening to mount a new incursion into northern Syria, accusing the United States of failing to tackle the security threats Turkey faces in the region. Turkish commando units were deploying Friday to the border with northeastern ...
The Syrian war will remain in history as the bloodiest and longest conflict of the beginning of the 21st century. But do you really know this conflict ? Here’s our first quiz on this crisis ! YoungDiplomats will publish plenty ...
The current race for control of territory in Syria now appears to be a competition between Iran and the United States, which have established two respective axes – with a vertical American (north-south) effort on the one hand, and a ...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will arrive to the White House tomorrow, there are two perspectives on what Turkish will discuss with Trump. On the one hand, Erdoğan uses the meeting as an opportunity to regret the Trump to arm Syrian Kurds ...
Coming Crawling Back: ISIS Seeks Alliance with Al-Qaeda. (This post was originally published by Young Diplomats Partner Geopolitics Made Super and is written by Ryan Bohl). From Reuters: Islamic State is talking to al Qaeda about a possible alliance as Iraqi troops close in ...
Mosul city was taken over by ISIS in 2014 and since then it is considered as its most significant strategic win. Before being declared as a global caliphate by Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi and the ISIL militants’ capture, Mosul was a major ...
With the Iraqi Forces already in Eastern and Western Mosul neighborhoods , the YPG at the gates of Raqqa, and with the Fall of Al-Bab and Manbij , the Islamic State’s Caliphate is virtually collpasing everywhere. ISIS has been retreating ...
Islamic State groups and AQIM(Al-Qaeda in Magreb) Iraq government forces, Russia, Iran, China, Hezbollah, Shiite groups from Iraq Anti-ISIS coalition, NATO, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE Rebels forces: FSA, Al-Nusra – Al-Qaeda in Syria, other groups Kurds: Peshmerga, YPG, ...