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for re-export. The Turkish military deployment in the Mosul District and its plans to establish a permanent military base are meant to protect these oil routes and dually maintain the flow of illegally sold Iraqi oil by the Kurdistan Regional Government and to secure the stolen Syrian and Iraqi oil taken by the ISIL.” Thus setting up this intelligence architecture will require experts that know and are familiar with the countries with Africa where the intelligence needs to be gathered, Special Operations

Northern Kurdistan Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N.A.T.O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and it's primary troubles stem from the past seven decades of acrimonious policies directed at the indigenous ethnic Kurds. The main problem, now, is the Kurdish popular insurgency on it's hands, in Turkish occupied Northern Kurdistan. The Kurdish

World Bank, 2005). Oil security, and specifically oil security in the Gulf, had been part of US military strategy for thirty years prior to the invasion in 2003 (Ritchie & Rogers, 2007). In 1981, Iraq was identified as a threat: as even before the Iraqi–Iranian war such a contingency exerted a major influence on U.S. force planning for non-NATO contingencies; Iraq’s Soviet-supplied armed forces are the largest of any in the Gulf region; and the principal oil fields of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are within

intentionally manipulated military strike aimed at provoking the United States into intervening Middle Eastern affairs. Their message is blatantly apparent through the strategic military strike upon the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, thus forcing the United States into defending their alliance with the Kurdistan nation. This strategic chess move has great advantages towards in a variety of circumstances for the Islamic Nation because any other decision other than military intervention would result in the advancement

Terrorism and Homeland Security Answer to Question 2 Hamas was founded in 1987 and its aim was to address Palestinian quest for nation statehood and their consequent grievances (Herzog, 2006). The writer explains that the name is acronym in Arabic for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya or the Islamic Resistance Movement. The group's ideology, the writer explains was outlined in its covenant of 1998. The covenant stipulates that the land of Palestine is an Islamic endowment. It stipulates that the

1.2. Analyzing the Kurdish Women’s Movement “The Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK) contains one of the largest contingents of armed women militants in the world” (Duzgun, 2015). The movement is acclaimed as a foreign terrorist organisation by Turkey, and many western countries. Since the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, and Iraq this has constructed a superior condition between the United States, and the PKK, in exchanging for delisting the PKK as a terrorist organisation (Phillips & Berkell

between Lebanon and Turkey. The state is currently in the middle of turmoil, torn between three sides, the Assad Regime, the dictatorial current President of Syria, the Syrian Opposition (Free Syrian Army and Jaysh Al-Islam), and ISIS. There are also Kurdistan armed forces mixed in the civil war, causing even more problem in Syria. To understand the geopolitical condition of Syria, we need to analyze the pre-civil war condition of Syria followed by ISIS infected condition. To understand the start of Syrian

Erbil is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Erbil is 76.06 miles in diameter. In Erbil there is mostly deserts and rivers. Erbil is mostly hot and summer like weather. During the summer it is extremely hot and during the winter it is mostly hot and wet. (Thefactfile) Erbil has had a few past conflicts including the 1980s war. The government of Iraq has evolved over millennia, with thousands of years of tyranny turning into a newly formed federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. At this

5). The rural to urban population movement, along with displaced Iraqi and Palestinian refugees exacerbated the already existing food scarcity and clean water problems in these cities. Young Syrians living through these challenging conditions hoped to find ways to improve the circumstances within Syrian cities. The

security is very harmful to a country, especially in terms of economics growth. When the people do not feel safe, they do not feel compelled to spend or invest much. He describes that social capital, such as trust and cooperation, was missing from the Iraqi people which left the economy stagnant. The lack of national security also caused many rebel groups to rise which caused even more problems. When there is a lack of order in the government, such as with the occupying CPA, many people turn to other