Sex jihad should be taken seriously and demands a thorough investigation.
Jihad in Islam is the call to fight and go to war and be ready to die for the victory of Islam against the enemy, who is defined as an infidel. The call for Jihad is seen, by some religious scholars, as a higher spiritual value. To die for your religion is seen as an honor and is defined as martyrdom whereby the martyr is guaranteed heaven and all its privileges, including not being seen as dead but as alive in the kingdom of God.
"War on Women: Forced Sex in the Name of Religion (Part 1/2)"
Imparting war-fighting skills to Syrian insurgents might backfire.
Training and supporting insurgents against one’s adversaries has been a cost effective strategy since the late 20th century, when states co-opted their adversaries’ enemies as proxy forces, avoiding the monetary cost of deploying their own soldiers and the political cost of casualties.
"The Enemy of My Enemy: Perils of Training Syrian Rebels"
The agreement that US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently hammered out in Geneva will, if implemented, prove a milestone in the century-long effort to contain the horrors of modern war. For the first time, the world community will have compelled a country that has used weapons of mass destruction within its own borders in suppression of an armed insurrection to relinquish them to international control and destruction.
"Credible Threats and Credible Outcomes on Syria's Gas"
The quest for stability in Syria will determine the outcome of the conflict.
Historian Niall Ferguson holds that order is always the best argument in favor of the empire. Precisely, territorial order or stability is taken by Richard Falk as the bedrock of state sovereignty. Historian Eric Hobsbawm, for his part, links the human need for such an order to people being subjects before becoming citizens.
The outcomes of the Syrian conflict are contingent on the different ways that stakeholders’ quest for stability and order in the territory unfurl.
The Middle East needs a WMD-Free Zone as an alternative to military action and radicalism.
Is American-led military action the only way to deal with the presence and use of chemical weapons in Syria? Why not try to negotiate, together with all the relevant parties, including the Russians and Iranians, a post-civil war Syria, without chemical weapons? And why not begin negotiations to establish a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East?
"Syria: The WMD-Free Zone Alternative to Military Action"