But Kurdish fighters still had to contend with their long-time enemy, Turkey, which regards them as being linked to a Kurdish separatist insurgency. There are also many other Syrian militias fighting with their
"We have slain a large dragon, but now we find ourselves in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes." We spent most of the past several decades confronting these snakes—terrorism, insurgency, narcotics, state weakness,...
Abu Sayyaf — a franchise of both al-Qaida and the Islamic State — became the face of Islamic terror in the Philippines, affiliated with a long-running insurgency aiming for the independence of the nation’s largely Muslim southern provinces. Once counting their membership in the ...
During the armed conflict in the 1960s, the Tatmadaw enlisted a brutal counter-insurgency strategy called the "four cuts," which aimed to cut off insurgents from local support in the form of food, intelligence, recruits and funding. The results of these campaigns were catastrophic for ethnic ...
is the thesis written by Raja G. Hussain for the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California, titled ,Badal: A Culture of Revenge, The Impact of Collateral Damage on Taliban Insurgency. This thesis is already available to the public on the Naval Postgraduate School website, but we ...
“terrorists” and an extension of its own Kurdish insurgency. In the chaos of war, the Kurdish fighters have partnered with the United States to fight the Islamic State group and carved out a huge autonomous region along the border with Turkey, amounting to a quarter of Syria’s entire ...
Insurgency, as irregular warfare, “is defined as the use of violence by sub-state actors or groups within states for political purposes of achieving power, control and legitimacy, using unorthodox or unconventional approaches to warfare owing to a fundamental weakness in resources or capabilities” ...
"Nobody has an interest in seeing terrorists gain a foothold inside of Iraq," he said, "and nobody is going to benefit from seeing Iraq descend into chaos." If Baghdad falls, or if the extremists entrench themselves in the territory they've already captured, the consequences for American...
Took advantage of the holiday weekend to grind the final leg up to lvl 100. While this season is lacking much story element, the QoL this season brings makes this the best season yet, even over season 2 which was my favorite until now. An improved inventory control was a godsen...
The prospect in Chechnya is for an ongoing insurgency, at once nationalist and Islamist, which threatens not only the stability of the North Caucasus, but of the entire Russian borderland with the Islamic world. It also foregrounds aspects of Russia's domestic politics which it would prefer not...