Paul Dixon, Dec 20 2018 Paul Dixon, Dec 20 2018, 7 views Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-14 Theo Farrell London: Vintage, 2018 Debating the Afghan War? The enthusiastic reviews of Theo Farrell’s Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-14 might suggest that there is general agreement on his interpretation of the Afghan war. The cover…
By GREGORY HELLMAN and CONNOR O’BRIEN 12/20/2018 05:02 PM EST Vehicles of the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group patrol the town of Rmelane in Syria’s Hasakeh province on June 5. | Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s abrupt announcement that “we have defeated ISIS” in Syria and U.S troops are “all coming back…
Emily Estelle December 20, 2018 5:03 pm | AEIdeas The Islamic State is not defeated in Syria, as the Trump administration asserted this week. The Islamic State is also alive and well in Africa. Militants affiliated with or inspired by the Islamic State have developed footholds across the continent, especially in regions facing instability, conflict,…
The daughter of a former terrorist says she can finally prove Iran was behind the outrage that killed 270 people 30 years ago today By Nick Sommerlad 22:25, 20 DEC 2018 Updated22:46, 20 DEC 2018 Iran paid a Palestinian terror group to carry out the Lockerbie bombing, it is claimed. Member Marwan Khreesat allegedly told…
Though deep historical rivalries between Saudi Arabia and Yemen have little to do with Egypt, it has been drawn into the anti-Houthi confict. Having given initial support to the Saudi coalition, how far Cairo will go is the source of intense speculation. (2015-08-26) Yemenis in Sanaa after heavy shelling on July 10 SANAA – Ambiguity…
Publications 22 July 2015 EU member states and enlargement towards the Balkans Cornelius Adebahr (External authors), Franco Algieri (Associate Professor and Head of the International Relations Department at Webster University Vienna), Ioannis Armakolas (Assistant Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, and Head of the South-East Europe Programme of…
July 1, 2015 Arthur Moore Belligerent and provocative behavior by China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and the construction of bases on reefs threaten the open sea lanes that the Japanese economy depends on. In response, Tokyo has been looking to expand the scope of its Maritime Self-Defense Force activities in order to…
By Avaneesh Pandey @avaneeshp88 a.pandey@ibtimes.com on June 27 2015 2:39 AM EDT Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced on Saturday that authorities would shut down 80 mosques in the country accused of promoting terrorism. Pictured: A broken glass window of the Imperiale Marhaba hotel after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in…
June 21, 2015: Norway, supplied with information on known Islamic terrorists, compared that list with one of the most recent Moslem refugees it had accepted and found at least ten of these asylum seekers had an Islamic terrorist background. Similar discoveries are being made in other countries that accept these refugees via a UN resettlement…
Author: Dr Mary Young Source: Intelligence unit Published: 11 June 2015 Filed: 11 June 2015 The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) released the Organised Crime in Australia 2015 report in May. The biennial report published by the Commission is a detailed and comprehensive review of serious organised crime in Australia. Importantly, the report identifies the…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1181995_1_1431071672762.html Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula says one of its senior members was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen. read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072559/Al-Qaeda-says-prominent-member-killed-US-strike-Yemen.html
Updated 8 May 2015, 18:50 AESTOfficers from Victoria and the Australian Federal Police conduct anti-terrorism raids in Melbourne’s northern suburbs as part of an ongoing investigation. The bomb squad were called in to search the property at Greenvale during anti-terrorism raids. (Credit: AAP) Officers from Victoria and the Australian Federal Police are conducting anti-terrorism raids…
Middle East May. 08, 2015 | 12:47 PM Palestinian children look at mortars and spent ammunition that, Suleiman Abu Jamaa, 35, collected around his destroyed home in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 11, 2014.AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB Agence France Presse GAZA CITY: A jihadi group that recently emerged in…
The foiled terrorist strikes this year are an ugly omen of more to come. By Luke Hunt May 08, 2015 This year was promising to be a particularly brutal one. Islamic militants have increasingly taken their terror campaigns to the streets of major Western cities – Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Charlie Hebdo in Paris,…
March 24, 2015 | Dr. Jose de Arimateia da Cruz The implosion of the Soviet Union on the eve of December 25, 1991, has been heralded by pundits and Sovietologists as an unprecedented event in world history. No one expected the powerful Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to come to an end as uneventfully…
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