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Russian intervention in Syria-What is the end game?

After four years, since the start of the Crisis in Syria, Russia enters into Syria, to protect its long term Middle Eastern ally, President Azad. Not only the Americans, but their European allies such as Britain, France and Germany perplexed at the swiftness of which the Russians started the bombing campaign against ISIS and anti-Assad rebel groups. For Putin’s Russia, it is a show of strength, after decades of hands-off policy not to fight in foreign country, following the collapse of Soviet Union. According various European media sources, Putin’s military intervention in Syria is to get concession as well as relief from sanctions from the West, following its annexation of Crimea and its involvement in supporting the rebels in Eastern Ukraine. But in the Syrian crisis, the Russians are acting as per international law.  They are acting by the invitation of the legitimate leader of Syria, whom the United States and their allies accused of killing his own people, and ...

The Growing Unrests in the Middle East

The existing situation in the Middle East posed a grave future for the future. The situation is spiraling out of control. The growing threat of ISIS , mixed with the Saudi and its allied bombing campaign on Houthi target in Yemen, the Iranian nuclear deal with the west , altogether complicated the situation in the Middle East.  Till two year back, Iraq was the crisis center in the Middle East, but now it spreads to Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia now is reaching the door steps of Lebanon. Felt by threat around their door steps, the Saudis, the desperately looking for shopping for nuclear weapons. Even If the ISIS is defeated, the ground situation in the region will not change as it seems, even there are chances for regime changes may occur in the Middle East in the near future. The rise of ISIS has deeply divided the population in the region on sectarian basis. The recent bombing incidents in the Saudi cities of Qatif and Dammam are only beginnings.  The...