More: Terrorism
Ratcheting up tension: US designation of Revolutionary Guards risks escalation
The stakes in the Middle East couldn’t be higher.
Suspicion that the United States’ intent is to change
the regime in Tehran rather than its officially...
Rumors about the “death” of Russian-Turkish alliance in Syria greatly exaggerated
The breakthrough in trade and other economic relations between Russia
and Turkey has quite naturally spread to the realm of politics, best reflected
in the two...
The Christchurch Shooting and Definitional Problem of Terrorism
On Friday,
March 15, 2019, the world was shocked by the news of shooting attack in two
different mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fifty people were...
Squaring the circle: US challenges China on Xinjiang
A draft US resolution that would designate a Pakistani
militant as a global terrorist threatens to be China’s, and possibly Pakistan’s
showdown at the OK Corral....
Did Central Asia’s Jihadists Challenge Al Qaeda?
Uzbek and
Uyghur Muhajireen support HTS
First-time al Qaeda-linked Salafi-Jihadi groups from Central Asia, Caucasus and China's Xinjiang fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime in northern...
Civilizationism vs the Nation State
Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics
of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game
that aims...
Gun Control: Lessons from the East
28th April, 1996 is deemed as
one of the darkest days in the history of Australia. The infamous and deadly
Port Arthur massacre took place in...
A Calamitous Week
Something is infinitely wrong in the
picture, a juxtaposition of polar opposites:
New Zealand, a country of unfailingly courteous and kind people, and an
extremist terrorist killing...
Who is Brenton Tarrant: Insight on the New Zealand Attack
A misfortunate incident hit by surprise
the usually peaceful city of Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday. The attacker,
Brenton Tarrant, 28, Australian, accused of carrying out...
The battle for leadership of the Muslim world: Turkey plants its flag in Christchurch
When Turkish
vice-president Fuat Oktay and foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu became this
weekend the first high-level
foreign government delegation to travel
to Christchurch they were doing more
than expressing...