Jessica Lewis, an ISIS expert at the Institute for the Study of War, told Time, “Sectarian civil war is the enabler…They want to set conditions in Iraq that look like Syria so they can set up an Islamic state.” . ..…
Relations never really moved to the next phase, as further progress was waylaid by frictions over missile defense, NATO’s war in Libya, the civil war in Syria, and a host of repressive measures that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime directed at its own citizens...…
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