Security & Conflict
Building the Community of Mankind for Shared Future More Urgent than Ever Before
During the month of August 2021, the global community is witnessing at least four large military exercises with scale and frequency rarely seen in...
Judgment and Prediction: An Assessment on the Warfare in Afghanistan
Researchers at ANBOUND have previously predicted that there could be a scenario where the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Afghan government forming urban-rural confrontation....
Islamic State threat moves online, expands across Africa
Two decades after the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, terror networks Al-Qaida and Islamic State – also known as Da’esh – continue...
Afghanistan: Taliban versus the USA and allied Brobdingnagians: Bitter truths
The writer is of the view that American guestimates about emerging post-exit scenario have miserably failed. The expectation that the US trained Afghan forces...
Did the United States secretly bomb the Libyan National Army?
BENGHAZI – In July, around the same time when talks in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum regarding the elections reached a stalemate, a journalist...
Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?
Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot.
The first and only person to have been executed since the Taliban gained...
The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021
Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s as a result of the growing influence of the...
Comments on the Brussels Summit Communique
The document reveals deep concern about the current security environment, which is assessed as “increasingly complex”, as “pervasive instability” and in general threating to...
Sino-Russian Efforts in Protecting Sovereignty, Social Norms, and National Security in Cyberspace
China and Russia have made cyberspace a national security priority. With the growth of access to the Internet globally, cyberspace is increasingly becoming more...
Iran to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev made a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, discussing...