Eurasia Security Watch: No. 319
Anbar offensive displays Iraqi army training inadequacies;
More Brotherhood members rounded up;
U.S.-Yemen relationship;
Discord amongst al Qaeda affiliates  
Anbar offensive displays Iraqi army training inadequacies;
More Brotherhood members rounded up;
U.S.-Yemen relationship;
Discord amongst al Qaeda affiliates  
The future path of U.S.-led nuclear negotiations with Iran, which have now reached a crucial stage, may be foreshadowed in the U.S. agreement with Syria to dismantle its chemical weapons program. Any U.S.-Iranian deal-making that follows the Syrian model, however, would prove nothing more than a pyrrhic victory, leaving the Middle East more dangerous and, ultimately, the United States less secure.
Iran leads in misery;
An addicted government?;
A looming water crisis;
Food supplies, stuck in transit;
Iranian drones on the Syrian battlefield  
Major attack in Urumqi, Xinjiang;
People’
s Daily laments influx of English words in Chinese language
 
Crimea as casus belli;
Moscow steps up activity in the Pacific