main Sunni jihadi force on the ground.
There are significant differences in the praxis of these two
movements, despite their near-identical ideological stances. Islamic
State prefers to rule by straightforward terror – see its slaughter of
322 members of the Albu Nimr tribe north of Ramadi this week.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Washington seems to have abandoned its Levant remodeling map for
another. However, the failure of the first project and the strength of
the Syrian people do not bode well for the implementation of this new
plan. Thierry Meyssan reviews the adjustments it requires and the
division it has created within the coalition: on one side, the United
States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, on the other, France and Turkey.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

In the wake of US-led air strikes on an
Islamic State (IS) convoy near the Iraqi city ofCommand
[CENTCOM] attempted to distinguish between the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's
official branch in Syria, and the so-called Khorasan Group in yesterday's's
press release that detailed airstrikes in Syria.CENTCOM, which directs the
US and coalition air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,
denied that the five airstrikes targeted "the Nusrah Front as a
whole" due to its infighting with the Syrian Revolutionaries' Front, but
instead claimed the attacks were directed at the Khorasan Group."These strikes were
not in response to the Nusrah Front's clashes with the Syrian moderate
opposition, and they did not target the Nusrah Front as a whole," CENTCOM
noted in its press release.

Friday, November 7, 2014

The
so-called "Arab Spring" had its start between December 2010 and
January 2011; since then the Middle East and North Africa have been at the
center of major social