Tag: Institute for the Study of War

  • The Russian region of Dagestan is holding a day of mourning

    The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan is not behind the March 11 attacks in Derbent, Dagestan and Makhachkala, according to the Institute for the Study of War (IWW). This comes after IWW said that the Vilayat Kavkaz branch of the Islamic State group is likely to have been behind the attack. IWW added that the…

  • The failures of Russia’s top brass is now a fair game.

    The failures of Russia’s top brass is now a fair game.

    The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank, said that Russian military setbacks in the Donbas region of Ukraine “were fundamentally changing the Russian information space”. ISW added that the unease in Russian society over mobilization was changing its information space. Earlier this month, the Ukrainian military had taken the city…