Security & Conflict
Uzbek’s Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad changed its leader
On April
12, 2019, Central Asia's Salafi-Jihadist group Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad
(KTJ) issued a statement on the Telegram channel, in which it announced the
resignation...
Post-Pulwama False Flag Operation: Prediction and Reality
Since the
nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, the region has become a major component
of international security and stability. The recent military escalation and
de-escalation of...
India’s Space Ambitions
On March 27, 2019 India has tested its first ever Anti-Satellite (ASAT)
missile code named as ‘Mission Shakti’. India shot down one of its own...
Illiberals and autocrats unite to craft a new world media order
Underlying global efforts
to counter fake news, psychological warfare and malicious manipulation of
public opinion is a far more fundamental battle: the global campaign by
civilisationalists, autocrats,...
Khalifa Haftar’s military advance
Khalifa
Haftar's military advance-started in Jufra on April 4 last - passed from the South, namely Fezzan, and
partly from Central Libya, starting from
the Westernmost point...
BRICS, SCO and Kashmir Terrorism
On February 14, 2019, a suicide bomber from the
Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organization drove a car filled with explosives into
a bus that was transporting members of...
Is Designating IRGC a Terrorist Organization a Right Decision?
Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), otherwise known in Iran as the so-called
‘Islamic’ Revolutionary Guard Corps, is designated as a terrorist organization on
Monday (April 8, 2019)....
Prospect of a nuclear war ‘higher than it has been in generations’
In a world defined by “competition over cooperation, and the acquisition
of arms, prioritized over the pursuit of diplomacy”, the threat of a nuclear
weapon being...
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligence
Over the
past two years, the development of Artificial Intelligence and the new
techniques for using Big Data has become both faster and more widespread.
According to...
From Nuclear Energy to Nuclear Proliferator
Remembering “Atoms for Peace” speech? What
was the point of peace if billions remained in poverty? President Eisenhower believed that arm’s reduction wouldn’t be sufficient...