Patrons of ISIS Rethinking Their Strategy?
397 views · Published 20 February 2015 · 15:25 · Indexed 26 October 2026
Channel: NewsClickin · 2015 · News & Politics
Egypt has retaliated to the beheading of Egyptian Christians by ISIS through bombing and targeting their network in Libya. Newsclick interviewed Prof. Aijaz Ahmed, well know political commentator to discuss the latest events in West Asia and North Africa, particularly with Jordan and Egypt attacking ISIS. Jordan was used as a base for the Jihadi attacks on Syria Prof. Aijaz taks about the increasing difficulty that Egypt faces at home with Muslim Brotherhood and also the attacks that the Sisi government has launched on the democratic forces that fought in Tahrir Square against Mubarak. Prof. Aijaz thinks that Saudi Arabia and the US needs to rethink their strategies regarding Islamist groups whom they have supported against Iran. They cannot fight Iran using such groups and yet think they will not be singed by the fires they are fanning.
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