ISIL expands under the shadow of Iran nuclear talks

According to the U.S. administration, the capture of Ramadi by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) only some 100 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was something ordinary regarding the bigger picture of the war.

But almost simultaneously ISIL entered Syria?s historical city of Palmyra, gaining control over parts of it in the direction of the capital Damascus.

Idlib, a major Syrian city in the region, had already been captured by another radical Islamist group, the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front, earlier in May.

As of May 22, agencies reported there was no border gate between the two neighbors, Iraq and Syria, which is not controlled by ISIL.

A number of border gates between Turkey and Syria are also in the hands of ISIL, with new claims that ISIL could launch another campaign to try to capture Kobane from the Kurdish forces soon.

Western strategists are making plans to recapture Mosul as ISIL captures more Iraqi and Syrian cities and expands its control within their formal - but practically non-existent - borders.

It is obvious that the terrorist organization has been using the power vacuum in the region created by not only the failing state structures in Iraq and Syria but also the international balances idled by the nuclear talks with Iran and coming presidential elections in the U.S. in 2016.

U.S. President Barack Obama has kept his promises to the American voters to withdraw troops from Iraq and has no intention to send troops to another conflict (may it be Ukraine or Syria) until at least the 2016 campaign as support for the new Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.

On the contrary, Obama follows a ?make peace with old adversaries? policy, as in the cases of Cuba and Iran.