Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 7, 2015

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Hassan Morajea and Erin Cunningham, Washington Post: Libyan gains may offer ISIS a base for new attacks

MISURATA, Libya — As the Islamic State scores new victories in Syria and Iraq, its affiliate in Libya is also on the offensive, consolidating control of Moammar Gaddafi’s former home town and staging a bomb attack on a major city, Misurata.

The Islamic State’s growth could further destabilize a country already suffering from a devastating civil war. And Libya could offer the extremists a new base from which to launch attacks elsewhere in North Africa.

The Libyan affiliate does not occupy large amounts of territory as the Islamic State does in Syria and Iraq. But in the past few months, the local group has seized Sirte, the coastal city that was Gaddafi’s last redoubt, as well as neighborhoods in the eastern city of Derna.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 7, 2015

Can Libya Save Itself From ISIS? -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast

Are Dark Days Ahead for Turkey? -- Noah Feldman, Bloomberg

Election result heralds a new Turkey, but not the one Erdoğan wanted -- Constanze Letsch and Ian Traynor, The Guardian

What's behind Turkey's ruling AK party setback? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera

Iran looks to energy reserves for post-sanctions influence -- Richard Anderson, BBC

Iran -- A Paper Tiger? -- Shoula Romano Horing, American Thinker

As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence -- Phyllis Chesler, New York Post

G7 Wary of Pushing Putin Over Fierce Fighting in Ukraine -- Rob Garver, The Fiscal Times

Poroshenko Makes Putin Look Like a Wimp -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Putin’s Survival Strategy -- Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ

Why some former East bloc countries are wooing Putin -- Sara Miller Llana, CSM

Why the West can’t wait Putin out on Ukraine -- Leonid Bershidsky, Gulf News

Ukraine’s Other War -- Bloomberg

If You Think Greece’s Crisis Will End Soon, Think Again -- Ian WishartNikos Chrysoloras and Andrew Mayeda, Bloomberg

Who Will Put Greece Out of Its Misery -- Ian Birrell, Telegraph

Glimmers of Hope in Colombia -- John McLaughlin, OZY

The Geopolitics of American Global Decline -- Alfred McCoy, Real Clear World/Tom Dispatch