Five ISIS terrorists were killed during a swift air raid in Kirkuk (250 kilometers north of Baghdad), revealed an Iraqi military statement on Tuesday. Additionally, two other individuals were apprehended in the same city through a well-executed ambush, the statement added. “The intelligence personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau have, after …

Despite sanctions and efforts to curtail the Wagner Group’s illicit activity, the group has successfully evaded financial sanctions through a series of facilitators and front companies around the world. $5 billion: That’s how much the Wagner Group has made since 2017 mainly from mining, illicit gold trade, and forestry business …

The West Should Assist the Private Actors Helping Arm Kyiv At this month’s NATO summit in Vilnius, the extensive security assistance that the West is providing Kyiv was brought into sharp focus. At the meeting, the United States and its allies announced a plan to train Ukrainian pilots to fly …

How China and Russia Use Intelligence Agencies to Undermine America The Cold War never ended. That, at least, is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s view. The clearest indication that the Kremlin continued its titanic struggle against the West even after the Soviet Union collapsed can be seen in the activities of …

With millions more internally displaced as well as an estimated 2.3 million residing in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, Afghan refugees are among the biggest and longest-lasting refugee communities in the world. After the Soviet invasion in 1979, the civil war in the 1990s, and the invasion of Afghanistan by the …

Oppression still continues in Kashmir. Many images of torture are not coming out due to lack of access to impartial media. The Hindu government of India does not stop at suppressing the Muslims of Kashmir. In the name of NRC, millions of Muslims from every state have been expelled from …

That bar, the Red Star, on the far side of eastern Europe was closed—until the Ukraine war started. So why did the White Moon bar on this side of the street decide to stay open, even extending its drinking hours? Once the Warsaw Pact closed shop there was no good …

Six weeks into a major counteroffensive that Ukrainian military commanders and political leaders hope will decisively change the course of the 17-month Russian invasion, this is where things stand: About 1,500 meters of recaptured territory south of Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhzhya region; less than that south of Hulyaypole. South of …

Like his Soviet predecessors, Putin has nothing to offer the peoples of the Russian Federation except repression and Russification; and because that is so, Gasan Guseynov says, the Kremlin leader launched his war against Ukraine lest the nationalism his own policies have produced spread to the Russian Federation and threaten …

Le sommet de Vilnius marque le début de la fin pour l’OTAN et le début d’une nouvelle époque. Pourtant, la conférence se contente d’acter les inflexions. Il est donc temps d’analyser et dans cet article je souhaiterais me concentrer sur l’un des facteurs matériels à l’origine de ce nouveau monde. …