By Nick Short.     The Islamic State terrorist organization known as ISIS first outlined their strategy to attack the West in a 99-page manifesto issued in January of 2015 under the title of “Black Flags from Rome.” ISIS states [...]

By Alexander Athos.   From 9/11 to Kentucky, San Bernardino, Paris, Brussels, all these terrorist attacks didn’t happen in a vacuum. Terror attacks since 9/11 of the Islamist kind are almost always sanctioned or inspired by a Wahhabi [...]

By Qamar Syed.     Pakistan is Afghanistan‟s most important neighbour, since it shares with Afghanistan history, ethnicity, religion and geography in ways none of its other neighbour does. We can, therefore, reasonably expect Pakistan [...]

By Richard Mills. Ahead of the Herd   As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information Serbian astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch is best known for developing one of the most significant theories [...]

 By Sebastian Sarbu.     Between 4 and 5 of October, 1994, on a “black moon” night (Moon eclipse), a huge fire focused the public attention on two real estate properties located somewhere up in highlands, nearby Geneve, belonging [...]

By Fadi Husseini.     Since Russia has been declared officially in the Middle East, and following the extended presence of its military in all forms in Syria, speculations splashed media platforms across the globe. Observers saw in [...]

by Syed Qamar Rizvi.   Turkish and EU leaders on Friday agreed a “historic” deal for curbing the influx of migrants that has plunged Europe into its biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II. Turkey extracted a string [...]

By Riaz Missen.     WHAT will be the course of international politics in the decades to come? The president of America drew clear lines in his annual State of the Union address. Mr. Obama said that instability will affect most parts [...]

By Rick Francona.   A U.S. Marine was killed in Iraq on March 19 during an attack on an American firebase located on the front lines between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). That same base was attacked again [...]

by David Isenberg.   The performance of private security contractors (PSCs) working for the U.S. government in war zones is a mixed bag. Sometimes the PSCs operate very well, but the accountability and oversight of them leave something [...]

By Syed Qamar Rizvi. Geopolitics via CPEC The China-Pakistan economic corridor is a significant bilateral agreement which has the potential to reconfigure the geopolitics of the South Asian region. China is set to invest $46 billion in this [...]

by David Isenberg.   Photo: Unidentified gunmen at the Simferopol airport in Crimea.   Although largely unrecognized by the rest of the world, Russia already has a substantial private military and security industry complex. Ironically, [...]

By Syed Qamar Rizvi.     Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has recently said strains between Russia and the West have pushed the world “into a new cold war”. “On an almost daily basis, we are being described the [...]

By Syed Qamar Rizvi.   The ambitious French idea first suggested by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the end of January of holding an international conference to kick-start the two-state solution process in Paris in July is alive [...]

    By Bill Hagestad II.   December 31, 2015, People’s Liberation Army’s governing bodies, the PLA rocket forces, the PLA strategic support troops inaugural meeting was held in August Building.The Army is the armed [...]

  by Stephen Lendman.   A separate article discussed it in detail. When strategic objectives are achieved, tactics change. Putin ordered most Russian aerial assets and supportive ground personnel withdrawn from Syria, redeployed home, [...]

By Mark Clodfelter. F-105 Fighter-Bombers Take Off on Mission to Strike North Vietnam in 1966 (USAF Photo)   A half-century ago, the United States was into the fifth month of the longest sustained strategic bombing campaign this [...]

By Syed Qamar Rizvi.   The successor to Ban Ki-moon, the current UN Secretary-General, will be decided over the course of 2016.The formal decision is taken by the UN General Assembly – but it always based on a recommendation by the [...]

  By Halyna Mokrushyna.   Each side has its truths, but there’s only one   Ukrainians have their own truth – they are fighting a war against imperialist Russia, against “Rascists” (a play on words – Russia plus [...]

By Fadi El Husseini.     Since 2003, Turkey has appeared as a valuable asset for global powers to invest in and as a leading actor in a region long described as sluggish towards democratic transformations. However, with the advent [...]