“Failed State Wars” in Syria and Iraq
Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS
The fighting has become at least three different and interrelated conflicts: a fight against Daesh, a low-level sectarian and ethnic civil conflict in Iraq, and an intense civil war in Syria. It also, however, is part of a far broader regional and global conflict against terrorism, part of the competition between the US and Russia, part of the competition between the majority of the Arab world and Iran, and part of an emerging struggle for a Kurdish identify, Turkey, and the Arab world.
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