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Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center
October 26, 2017
The predominantly Kurdish SDF officially announced this week that the city of Al-Raqqah had been fully liberated. Following the liberation, a struggle over control and influence in the city and throughout the region ensued between the United States and the SDF on the one hand and the Syrian regime onÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
October 20, 2017
In 1986, Iranian forces managed to capture the Al-Faw Peninsula, which lay next to oil fields in Kuwait—then seen as a major ally of Iraq (yes, alliances in the Middle East can shift very quickly). The Koksans were therefore deployed to bombard the Kuwaiti oilfields, disrupting their production. Finally in 1988ÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
September 15, 2017
Top representatives of both Khalifa Hifter of the Libyan National Army and Fayez al-Sarraj of the Libyan Presidential Council met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow, with the latter representative also attending to Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny.
Center for Research on Globalization
September 12, 2017
“In the 1990s Grozny was cruelly flattened by the Russians; it still lies in ruins. ... While ExxonMobil owned one of Iraq's largest oil fields in the wake of the occupation, China, without deploying one soldier or firing one shot, has slowly yet methodically been moving into the mix, and angling for more control ofÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
September 11, 2017
"In the 1990s Grozny was cruelly flattened by the Russians; it still lies in ruins. ... While ExxonMobil owned one of Iraq's largest oil fields in the wake of the occupation, China, without deploying one soldier or firing one shot, has slowly yet methodically been moving into the mix, and angling for more control ofÃÂ ...
Haaretz
September 6, 2017
When the Germans resumed their offensive, in spring 1942, their strategic target was the oil fields of the Caucasus. Only as Army Group South advanced toward Maikop and Grozny did Hitler order a separate attack on Stalingrad. He banked on the psychological blow that the fall of “Stalin's city,” which isÃÂ ...
The American Interest
April 12, 2017
Well that didn't last long. Last week we noted that Libyan oil production jumped 160,000 barrels per day after its biggest oil field reopened. That resurgence was short-lived after that field was shut down again this week, and Libya's oil output fell 30 percent to a six month low. Bloomberg reports: The NorthÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 6, 2017
In late 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally acceded to repeated requests from Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov that the joint stock company Chechenneftekhimprom, which controls the republic's oil sector infrastructure, including oil wells and two refineries, be transferred to ChechenÃÂ ...
Libya Herald
September 15, 2017
... solve the problem, and I hope that we will come to a positive result,” he as quoted as saying by the media in the Chechen capital Grozny.
Al-Monitor
September 15, 2017
... Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow, with the latter representative also attending to Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny.
Libya Herald
September 13, 2017
While in the Chechen capital Grozny he is also expected to have talks with Lev Dengov, the head of the Russian contact group on Libya before ...
Sandusky Register
August 17, 2017
... of oil stocks, the Caucasian city of Maikop surrendered to the Germans while to the east the Russians fell back toward the Grozny oil fields.
Libya Herald
April 19, 2017
The delegation, which flew to the Russian capital on a private jet, is expected to head south to the Chechen capital of Grozny tomorrow, ...
The American Interest
April 12, 2017
Well that didn't last long. Last week we noted that Libyan oil production jumped 160,000 barrels per day after its biggest oil field reopened.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 6, 2017
... of an oil refinery in Grozny with an annual capacity of 1 million tons. ... from two Chechen oil fields, the news portal Caucasian Knot reported.
bne IntelliNews
December 19, 2016
In 2015 alone, he is reported to have spent $1.5bn acquiring banks, pension funds, oil fields, factories, warehouses and a popular Russian radio station, Radio Shanson.
Kansas City Star
November 13, 2016
Trump also insisted that bombing campaigns on oil fields controlled by the Islamic State were needed to rob the would-be caliphate of revenue.
Eurasia Review
September 26, 2016
The new plan kicked off with the Aug 25-27 Grozny conference themed "Who are the Ahlu-s-Sunnah" (People of Sunnah) in which the Saudis were noticeably absent.
Middle East Monitor
September 21, 2016
This has led to children having the audacity to organise conferences in Grozny that excises the Saudi Arabian project from the wider context of the Sunni majority, a majority which is now under a very real attack.
Just Security
August 1, 2016
Back in 1999-2000, Russia dropped leaflets offering safe passage out of the city - as has been done in Aleppo - and, after a brief pause, "the real devastation began," the UN later calling Grozny "the most destroyed city on earth." Many Syrians feel ...
OilPrice.com
February 23, 2016
For the first time in many years, Grozny is close to acquiring full control over the oil business in the republic. Chechnya's governor, Ramzan Kadyrov, appears to have outsmarted the giant Russian state oil company ... prices and the existence of ...
William and Mary News
February 14, 2016
21 Boston Globe op-ed piece regarding the case of free speech at a protest in Grozny, Chechnya. In the Jan. 19th Chechnya protest, thousands of people flooded the streets to decry the French publication Charlie Hebdo .... The laws are designed to allow ...
The National Interest Online
January 12, 2016
Nations have fought wars, or shaped their military strategy during a war, to conquer oil fields or prevent rivals from controlling the commodity that is the lifeblood of industrial economies and modern militaries.
