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A Caspian Quasi-Khanate: DAESH, Wahhabism, and the Geopolitics of Distraction

In this article I will briefly outline how the history of this region, with its dominant religion of Islam, as well as its poverty...

Snake Eyes: Rolling the Dice with Iran

In light of the recent nuclear accord with Iran it is worthwhile to consider how some have always argued there is no real inherent...

KHORASAN: Where DAESH, Caspian Energy, and Great Power Politics Meet

The word on the street in Afghanistan is that the United States created DAESH to be a problem for Russia, China, and Iran. While...

America vs. Russia: Bringing a Knife to a Foreign Policy Gunfight

In some ways the United States has played a very strange self-injurious game since 1991 when it comes to Russia. On the one hand,...

ISIS Expansion hits a Dead-end

It's been a year since ISIS declared its caliphate, which is a form of an Islamic government headed by a political and religious successor...

State of confusion on the edge of total collapse

Four years of fighting and no concrete solutions coming from regional, international actors or organizations, not a single action and agreement reached so far...

Blue Peace in the Middle East

With Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Palestine crises making daily headlines in the Middle East, it is easy to forget about the structural challenges that...

Situation Urgent and Serious

As we all read and assess and experience the last years the crisis all around the World are too many and overwhelming heading to...

The False Diplomacy of Torture

So the United States Senate released its report highlighting extreme and supposedly ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence...

Somalia: Everyday tragedy in the Horn of Africa

In the Horn of Arica lies Somalia, a country that is intertwined with widespread lawlessness, ineffective government, terrorism, crime, and stagnation of development. ...

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Beijing’s Two-Track Money Play: A Stronger Yuan for Washington, a Harder Line on Belt and Road Debt

Today's Numbers $126.4bn (China's record H1 2026 Belt and Road...

Xi to Press Trump to Halt Taiwan Arms Sales in 1982 Agreement Push

China's President Xi Jinping is expected to urge US...

Iran-US Talks May Resume as Trump and Pezeshkian Head to UN

On Tuesday, Iran and the United States signaled the...

Can Iran Reopen the Strait of Hormuz Through Diplomacy?

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz...
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