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In many ways, Iraq served as the epicenter in the emergence of armed nonstate actors that eventually transcended state borders and touched the entire region. This is most evident in the case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Upon capturing Mosul in 2014, ISIS declared its “Caliphate” and set out to obliterate the territorial borders demarcating Syria and Iraq.
The Proxy Wars Project (PWP) aims to develop new insights for resolving the wars that beset the Arab world. While the conflicts in Yemen, Libya, Syria, and Iraq have internal roots, the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others have all provided military and economic support to various belligerents. PWP Conflict Studies are papers written by recognized area experts that are designed to elucidate the complex relationship between internal proxies and external sponsors. PWP is jointly directed by Ariel Ahram (Virginia Tech) and Ranj Alaaldin (Brookings Doha Center) and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Keywords
- Al-Qaeda
- Civil war
- Insurgency
- Iran
- Iraq
- Islamic state
- Kurdish Regional Government
- militias
- turkey
- United States
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DOI: 10.21061/proxy-wars-alaaldinweb: http://publishing.vt.edu/site/books/10.21061/proxy-wars-alaaldin/
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