The Islamic State has been ramping up a campaign of violence in rural parts of Iraq since the second half of 2019, focusing on Diyala, Kirkuk and Salahaldin provinces, to the east and north of Baghdad. Both the frequency and character of the attacks have been steadily increasing
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The current political configuration makes transitional justice very delicate, since the power-sharing agreement reached last year between the junta that overthrew Omar al-Bashir’s regime and the revolutionary forces enshrines a role for the military and paramilitaries
Its Turkey’s Libya now
Libya’s post-revolutionary decline toward fragmentation and state collapse represents a growing cause for alarm
It may yet represent a diplomatic opportunity for neutral external states such as Germany to block further negative interventions and prevent Libya becoming a client state of external powers
The more there is a Russian centrality in Libya, the more the US gets alerted. But we are far from an American intervention that is not political
From now on Turkey will have the say in Libya […] If Haftar finds no way to regain air sovereignty, the general will suffer further setbacks
Europe should consolidate its relations with its traditional partners in order to prevent further military escalation
The German newspaper refers to the Middle East New Battle Lines project recommendations.
These suggestions are sound policy but to get movement on any of these proposals, Europeans will need to also draw Washington into negotiations with the Arab Gulf actors who on security and nonproliferation issues remain highly influenced by the United States