Wars / Armed Conflicts

REFUGEES. Monday December 7, 2015 Dr. Lefteris Kretsos gave a press conference at Palais des Nations Geneva. This conference was introduced by a press release by Olga Gerovasili -the spokesperson for the Greek goverment- regarding press reports on the refugee crisis.

TERROR. To understand the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — why it exists, what it wants, and why it commits terrible violence of which the Paris attacks are only the latest — you need to understand the tangled story of how it came to be.

SYRIA. The increased attention ISIS is receiving in the wake of Friday’s deadly terror attacks in Paris is “taking the pressure off the Syrian regime right at the moment when pressure might have been effective,” Josh Rogin wrote Sunday on Bloomberg View.

MILLIARDS. L'Etat islamique affirme être le groupe terroriste le plus riche du monde avec plus de 2 milliards de dollars de fortune. Vente de pétrole, trafic d'antiquités et racket constituent ses principales sources financières.