Eastern Europe Region where popular movements toppled communist governments in 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev Reformist leader of the Soviet Union, in power during its political disintegration. Soviet Union Communist state dissolved in 1991, ending the Cold War. ...
Presents "At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991," a 1999 publication of the history staff of the Center for the Study of Intelligence of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ......
former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi, and heterodox doctrine of Sunni Islam Significance: gained global prominence in early 2014 when it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in its Western Iraq offensive, followed by its capture of Mosul and the Sinjar ...