Abbreviations

  AQI  Al Qaeda in Iraq

  ASP  Arab Socialist Party

  BOALs  Basic Organizations of Associated Labour

    (Yugoslavia)

  CDF  Committee for the Defense

    of Democratic Freedoms
    and Human Rights in Syria

  CND  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

  DiEM25  Democracy in Europe Movement

  EFPs  Explosively Formed Projectiles

  EU  European Union

  FPÖ  Freedom Party of Austria

  FSA  Free Syrian Army

  FSB  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

  GFIW  General Federation of Iraqi Women

  GRU  Main Intelligence Directorate (Russia)

  HDZ  Croatian Democratic Union

  HNC  High Negotiations Commission (Syria)

  HRAS  Human Rights Association in Syria

  HVO  Croatian Defence Council

  ICC  International Criminal Court

  ICP  Iraqi Communist Party

  ICTY  International Criminal Tribunal

    for Former Yugoslavia

  IDPs  Internally Displaced Peoples   

  IFTU  Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions

  IGC  Interim Governing Council (Iraq)

  ILO  International Labour Organization

  IMF  International Monetary Fund

  IRGC  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

  IRI  Islamic Republic of Iran

  IRIB  Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

  IRP  Islamic Republican Party

  ISCI   Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq

  JAMA  Revolutionary Movement of the Iranian People

  JCPOA  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

  KDP  Kurdish Democratic Party

  KLA  Kosovo Liberation Army

  KRG  Kurdish Regional Government

  LCCs  Local Coordination Committees of Syria

  LTTE  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

  MKO  People’s Mujahedin of Iran

  MPRP  Muslim People’s Republican Party (Iran)

  NATO  North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  NDF  National Defence Forces

  NOC  National Oil Corporation (Libya)

  OCHA  UN Office for the Coordination

    of Humanitarian Affairs

  OPCW  Organisation for the Prohibition

    of Chemical Weapons

  OPEC  Organisation of the Petroleum

    Exporting Countries

  OUN  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

  OWFI  Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq

  PDPA  People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan

  PJAC  Free Life Party of Kurdistan

  PKK  Kurdistan Workers’ Party

  PLFP-GC  Popular Front for the Liberation

    of Palestine – General Command

  PLO  Palestine Liberation Organization

  PUK  Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

  PYD  (Kurdish) Democratic Union Party

  RCC   Revolutionary Command Council (Iraq)

  RG  Rossyiskaya Gazeta

  RPR  Reanimation Package of Reforms (Ukraine)

  SAVAK   Iranian secret police under the shah

  SCIRI  Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq

  SDF  Syrian Democratic Forces

  SSO  Special Security Organization (Iraq)

  StWC  Stop the War Coalition

  SWP  Socialist Workers Party (UK)

  UCM  Unity of Communist Militants (Iran)

  UDHR  Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  UNHRC  United Nations Human Rights Council

  UNMIK  UN Mission in Kosovo

  UNPROFOR  UN Protection Force

  VEVAK  Secret police of the Islamic Republic of Iran

  WDTUM  Workers’ Democratic Trade Union Movement (Iraq)

  WMD  Weapons of Mass Destruction 

  WPC  World Peace Council

  WPI  Worker-Communist Party of Iran

  WSWS  World Socialist Web Site

  WTO  World Trade Organization