The situation in Syria remains tense, despite the “fraudulent” lull in recent weeks over the military action in Nagorno-Karabakh. However, it is clear that the Syrian conflict will remain unresolved for many years, and hostilities there have not stopped, although in recent weeks they have been reduced in intensity.

According to experts and analysts from the American think tank Institute for the Study of War [ISW], the possibility of a direct war between Russia and the United States has grown very high, said in a monthly report of the institute.

The Islamic State’s gruesome killing of a sheikh and some of his relatives by rigging his corpse with explosives has led to security concerns in the multiethnic region bordering Iran, long a hotbed for extremism and susceptible to sectarianism. Another recent uptick in attacks attributed to the Islamic State (IS) …