ISIS activity is resurgent in Kirkuk, where militants exploit a security vacuum between Peshmerga and Iraqi army lines. Villagers report direct encounters and live in fear, while officials warn the gap must be filled by a joint force to prevent further instability. The specter of ISIS has returned to haunt …
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Syria’s Al-Sharaa and the Most Dangerous Mutation of Political Islamism
The Syrian leader is heading a neo-Jihadism that is more insidious and dangerous than all other forms of political Islamism and Salafi-Jihadism the world has known so far. Syria’s interim self-appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who served for two decades as a militant in the al-Qaeda terrorist organization under the alias …
Read More »China’s Military Parade Showcases Advanced Weapons and Growing Ties With Russia, Iran, and North Korea
Tiananmen Square shuddered as advanced Chinese military hardware rolled past the leaders of the Axis of Aggressors — Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. Wednesday’s parade, attended by about two dozen foreign leaders, was intended to celebrate the 80th …
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