Russia Spotlight: Chechen Leader Fires Civil Servant Whose Daughter Fights In Syria
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has fired the director of Chechnya’s...
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Author: Joanna Paraszczuk
Syria Spotlight: Some North Caucasian Militants Swear Allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Chechnya-based pro-jihad website FiSyria reports on Thursday that members of Islamist faction,...
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Syria Spotlight: 75-year-old ISIS Fighter To Youth — Put Your Pants On & Wage Jihad
Russian-language pro-jihad website FiSyria, which focuses on Syria’s conflict, has posted a...
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Syria Spotlight: In Bulgaria, Syrians Spend Winter In Freezing Tents, While 1000s More Make Harrowing Journey To Jordan
Two important recent pieces help shed more light onto the plight of Syrian refugees in Bulgaria...
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Russia Spotlight: “Liquidation” Of Volgograd Bus Bomb “Mastermind” Billed As Counterterror Success
The assassination in Dagestan this week of Dmitry Sokolov — the husband of Naida Asiyalova,...
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Russia Spotlight: Scott Lucas Talks to BBC World Service About Russian Contractors In Syria
Further to my coverage of reports about Russian private military contractors in Syria, Scott Lucas...
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