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Russian converts to Islam that have gone to wage Jihad in the Caucasus, obviously.

It's funny considering that Turkey was one of Israel's best friends in the past.

CE has made often made comments such as calling for the liberation of the Caucasus from colonial Russian rule, an so on, but you are right tough, religion has surrplanted secular nationalism in the region. About the Pankisi I remember Umar al-Shishani being mocked by other Chechen jihadis...

Caucasian Islamists do use nationalistic rhetoric, from time to time.

Caucasian Jihadist aren't united, they often suffer from infighting.

I wonder if the Alawite state will restablished, if things get really bad for Assad in the future.

Nothing really, Syria has(or atleast used to) a large number of Armenians, mostly descendants of Ottoman refugees.

If anything, IS indirectly boosted Iran's power in the region, by pushing Arab Shias into Iran's arms and care.

*irrelevant

Whatever might have been planned, it is relelevant now, Syria is beyond hope at this stage.

The Lebanese army claims that it has managed to capture Baghdadi's familiy

Size ≠importance

This has nothing to with what I just said, you said that Syria's Christians were imported by Assad I am just pointing out how bizarre your own words are.

This has to be the dumbest thing I have ever read here

Muslims are too diffrent to ever unite in a common political goal especially now in the times of secterian, nationalist and ideological conflicts.

IS has been trying to export the secterian conflict(and thus it's presence) outside of Syria/Iraq, the eastern part of the Arabian peninsula with it's large number of Shias is the obvious choice

I am talking about the Iraqi goverment

This is just sad at this point

Mearly one head out of many, and a small one that is.

Iraq is a lost cause