As Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh prepare to hand some of the territory to Azerbaijan, as per a ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia earlier in November, they fear for the fate of the numer... Read more

Ali Ragab   Indonesia launched a preemptive strike against terrorist groups in the central Sulawesi region, killing two members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) in a clash on Tues... Read more

Mustafa Kamel   The Libyan crisis seemed close to being resolved following the decision of the Tunisian Forum and the agreement of the two parties to the conflict on a preliminary roadm... Read more

Mahmoud al-Batakoushi   In the previous issues of the series “Sultan’s fall”, we discussed how the policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have led to the collapse of the cou... Read more

Mustafa Kamel Al-Qaeda will not likely report the death of its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri soon, even as there are strong indications to his death. However, the lack of an announcement on the p... Read more

Although the US and North Korea have made several attempts in the past two years to engage in negotiations, last year talks between the two countries stalled, with Washington refusing to lif... Read more

The Brereton report has uncovered credible evidence of 39 alleged murders carried out by Australian Defence Force personnel in Afghanistan. But details of the alleged killings are not provid... Read more

As a human rights worker in Uruzgan, Abdul Ghafar Stanikzai tried to help distraught families seeking answers about their dead sons. He’d given up hope they’d ever get them Dr Abdul Ghafar S... Read more

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has visited an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, becoming the first top U.S. diplomat to do so. A State Department official, speaking on condition... Read more

Rubeir al-Fares Three renowned terrorism experts warned recently against potential terrorist attacks in Belgium, against the background of the attacks that had already taken place in France.... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) prepares a weekly report about the exploitation by terrorists of the internet and social media sites in their recruitment operations. The... Read more

Fatima Abdul Ghani   Ennahda, the Brotherhood’s arm in Tunisia, is approaching a political abyss at a steady pace. Perhaps the reason for this is due to the personalization practi... Read more

Mahmoud al-Batakoushi   The despair, helplessness and ambiguity that hang over Turkish society thanks to the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) policies had been pushing the Turkish... Read more