READINGS

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/06/al-qaida-leader-denounces-islamic-state-liars-in-new-message?CMP=share_btn_tw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-once-beautiful-valley-in-syria-is-now-a-microcosm-of-the-countrys-war/2017/01/04/4157e544-d28c-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?postshare=3481483579432194&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.8d29eaafdad4

http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/the-truth--lost-in-the-fog-of-war

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-troops-now-inside-mosul-pentagon-says-1483575399

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/syria-turkey-takes-fight-to-isis-in-assault-on-western-base-of-al-bab?CMP=share_btn_tw

http://www.nrttv.com/EN/Details.aspx?Jimare=11917

https://defenceindepth.co/2017/01/04/erdogan-and-the-national-pact-the-fallout-today-from-the-british-armys-seizing-of-mosul-in-1918/

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/02/world/myanmar-investigates-brutality-against-rohingya-muslims/

http://newscdn.newsrep.net/h5/nrshare.html?r=3&lan=en_US&pid=14&id=rE6796487LU_wd&app_lan=&mcc=410&declared_lan=en_US&pubaccount=ocms_0&referrer=200620&showall=1#.WGlEQmu6uYc.twitter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-won-2016-but-russia-has-its-limits-as-a-superpower/2016/12/31/51c607a2-cec3-11e6-85cd-e66532e35a44_story.html?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.94e8f1d9403a

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/748891/New-ships-British-Royal-Navy-country-enters-new-era-maritime-power-Sir-Michael-Fallon

https://defenceindepth.co/2016/08/01/general-sir-john-hacketts-the-third-world-war-or-how-to-think-about-a-future-war-with-russia-today/

http://www.timeturk.com/sincar-da-pkk-iran-ittifaki/haber-430415

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2016/12/28/on-the-front-lines-of-the-fight-for-the-islamic-states-capital-of-raqqa/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/29/angela-merkel-jurgen-osterhammel-the-transformation-of-the-world-book-germany?CMP=share_btn_tw

https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/russia-falls-old-habits

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-constitution-idUSKBN14H0X3?il=0

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/29/a-more-dangerous-long-term-threat-al-qaida-grows-as-isis-retreats?CMP=share_btn_tw

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/25/top-u-s-general-two-more-years-to-beat-isis.html

http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2016/12/28/fsa-fighters-evacuated-from-aleppo-to-boost-fight-in-al-bab

http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2016/12/20/pm-yildirim-signals-euphrates-shield-like-operation-on-turkeys-entire-southern-border

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aleppo-has-fallen-armed-opposition-seeks-to-redefine_us_58592a35e4b0d5f48e165292?timestamp=1482238712118