February 13, 2019



After last November's "velvet revolution" in Armenia, is it old skepticism or new optimism between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh? The OSCE Minsk Group wants concrete steps toward long-term peace. The American military's definitive history of its war in Iraq was published by the U.S. Army War College in two volumes: Volume 1 is entitled Invasion, Insurgency and Civil War (2003-06), while Volume 2 is on Surge and Withdrawal (2007-11). NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg wants to avoid arms race with Russia. U.S. Navy Admiral Philip Davidson is publically skeptical about North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons program. In remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Head of U.S. Central Command General Joseph Votel suggests more than 10000 ISIS troops remain in Syria alone. Turkey's President Erdoğan accuses U.S. of delivering arms to groups he views as terrorists including the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). Meanwhile Russia plans for long-term relationship with Syria, and now that Washington has announced its victory, Tehran insists American forces leave Syria without delay.            


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