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Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
vacuum. In places like Anbar, Salah al-Din, and the strategic corridors of northern and western Iraq, that void would offer fertile ground for terrorist networks and insurgent activity to regroup.
That is why this disarmament project must, in reality, be three projects rolled into one: disarmament, ...
vacuum catalized by army dissolution intensified this crisis.
In the years that followed, the rise of armed groups, sectarian bloodshed, and then the war against ISIS transformed weapons into something far more than tools of combat, they became embedded in the very fabric of individual and collecti ...
vacuum. The tensions only escalated from there, over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the fate of UNRWA, the military campaign in the strip, and the role of UN peacekeepers in the region.
The low point came when Israel declared Guterres persona non grata and barred him from entering territory under ...
vacuum steps Venezuela. The Venezuelan oil gambit has become Trump's singular talking point, his last refuge for projecting success. With no real achievements to point to, he is milking it for all it is worth, hoping to manufacture a veneer of accomplishment and mute the criticism that keeps mou ...
vacuum after exit of forces that for years have been part of the defense architecture of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The first concern is the Kurdistan region's air vulnerability. In recent months, Erbil and Sulaimaniyah have been repeatedly hit by drones and missiles. Some of these str ...
vacuum in Africa, but entering a market where virtually every major power is competing for a share.
Nigeria is a case in point. Medical cooperation and the shipment of equipment and ambulances to the country by the Israeli regime, alongside efforts to expand defense ties, show that influence in Afr ...
vacuum caused by absence of foreign forces, but is the funding, training, intelligence, air defense, and rapid action.
The funding issue could turn into the project’s single biggest vulnerability. Building a unified military requires regular salaries, equipment, ammunition, training and ...
vacuum that helped set the stage for ISIS's rise in 2014. Seen in that light, the issue is not merely the elimination of a $61 million aid package.
The US war against Iran and rising tensions across West Asia have led the Americans to conclude they must move their personnel and equipment out of ...
vacuum and Russian opportunity
The developments of 2023 in the Sahel, above all the coup in Niger, laid bare a deep crisis in the region's established security order. The military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have not only scaled back ties with the West but have moved to deepen relat ...
vacuum and heightened external threats, their incentive to preserve their military capacity may not diminish.
The core issue is not disarmament, but how to integrate existing military capacity into the official structure of the Iraqi state. If Baghdad can forge an internal political agreement that ...