Proxy Battleground News Today

By Akram Kharief

Correspondent who is following the story for us from beirut welcome to you what do these elections in lebanon reveal about the power struggles that are currently underway in the country and in the region as a whole. well first about lebanon lebanon is deeply divided society on sectarian lines and thats the legacy of the civil war in many ways and the result of the elections in a way reinforces these fault lines the sea has of water the certain way the sunnis of water to settle in still have the ...

Yemens borders its become a fierce struggle for regional dominance between saudi arabia which backs the government and iran which backs the who the rebels as the battle for regional control grows so does the enormous toll on civilian lives that the u.n. calls it the worlds worst manmade humanitarian disaster. and to talk more about this were joined now from beirut by adam baron hes from the european council on foreign relations and has extensive experience in yemen adam thanks for joining us thi...

Been a proxy battleground. theyre going to have to somehow align. they can defeat isis, but not alone. cnn, baghdad. >> and isis agenda also includes the destruction of iraqi and syrian cultural heritage sites as well. they release add propaganda video of an ancient city. they can be seen attacking the archaeological site using sledgehammers before they finally blow it up. it was a city in 900 to 612 b.c. and the united nations says its doing all it can to help civilians trapped by isis in syr...

There are concerns not only in iraq but the whole region, there are concerns in the meddling affairs of each others country. there has been a spread in the region. i think we have our own sense. iraq is a neighboring country to iran. some countries have their own problem to iran. >> a tough sell as iraq has long been a proxy battleground for various nations and interests. that are going to have to somehow align. iraq and al abadi says can defeat isis but not alone. >> the united nations says it ...

Iran. some countries they have their own problem with iran. >> a tough sell as iraq has long been a proxy battleground for various nations and interests. theyre going to have to somehow align. he says they can defeat isis, but not alone. cnn, baghdad. >> as isis battles the territory, theyre also systematically destroying treasures. we report on a destruction of an iraqi city. listen. >> more than 3,000 years of history obliterated in seconds. this video was released by isis. cnn cannot independ...

There has been criticism to the united states saying america has not done enough. before boarding his plane, abadi said there has been an increase in support from the united states but the bottom line is they want more. they cannot do this on their own. abadi feels as if the u.s. or other nations have that a problem with iran need to leave those problems outside of the iraqi arena. this country has been a proxy battle ground for various nations and competeing interesting. a lot of people are hop...

And that africa stopped being this proxy battleground between communism and capitalism, moscow and washington. sometimes i think the problem when someone looks back at the dead hand of history makes what happened look inevitable. but i remember covering it at the time and none of it felt inevitable at all. and mandela himself took enormous risks when he was moved out of robin island where he started talking on his own, secretly to the architects of apartheid to see if he could broker a deal. tha...

Fortune in being the first african nation to become independent after the cold war was over and that africa stopped being this proxy battleground between communism and capitalism, moscow and washington. i mean, sometimes the problem when one looks back at the sort of dead hand of history makes what happened look inevitable. i remember covering it at the time and none of it felt inelfable. mandela took enormous rics when he was moved out of robben island and he was in other prisons where he start...