Why Is It So Hard to Reach a New Nuclear Deal with Iran?
One of the first acts of the Biden government was to remove the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).
Why Turkey Is Conducting Operation Claw-Lock in Northern Iraq Now
Read: The EU and the PKK: Hypocrisy and Double-Standards at Large
Operation Claw is a new-generation cross-border operation
Although Turkey’s cross-border operations against ISIS (Daesh) and PKK terror groups are not unexpected, their changing nature is.
Can NATO Bypass the Security Complex Mentality?
Read: China Beware, Russia-Ukraine War Unified EU and NATO As Never Before
The second decade after the Cold War
The second decade following the end of the Cold War was sealed by 9/11 when the United States’ “war on terror” and NATO’s activation of Article 5 for the first time in its history brought the alliance into Afghanistan.
Why Did the Houthis Demolish an Ottoman Martyrs’ Memorial in Yemen?
Read: Designating Houthis as Terrorists Changes Very LittleThe establishment of the memorial graveyard dates to 2011 when it was inaugurated by then Turkish President Abdullah Gül during an official visit to Sana’a, on January 11, 2011.
“I Kept Three Copies of My Novels Lest They Get Confiscated”: An Interview with Freed Palestinian Prisoner Esmat Mansour
They are being stigmatized as terrorists.
NYC Subway Mass Shooting Sparks Gun Control Debate
The case is currently not suspected to be an act of terrorism but a lone wolf attack; however, the possibility has not been ruled out.
Ukraine’s Military Transformation between 2014 and 2022
By early 2015, Ukraine's anti-terrorist operation (ATO) against Donbas separatists had achieved limited success in regaining control of a sizeable portion of the Donbas region, while as a result of a more active involvement by Russia, the Ukrainian army lost many personnel and equipment.
American Political Opportunism and the Long Overdue Rohingya Genocide Determination
Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award, and Padoh Saw Taw Nee, head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Karen National Union, Myanmar’s oldest resistance organization, publicly urged the United States government to release the $1 billion Myanmar sovereign fund frozen by Blinken’s boss, President Biden, following the coup in Myanmar so that the money could be used to fund Myanmar’s rightful resistance against the “terrorist”-like occupying military.
Just and Unjust Wars: The Need for a Third Way
The third way: justice as an end
It appears clear that the just war doctrine is not perfect and there is an urgent need for a third way debate that moves beyond the confines of a just war, on the one hand, and terrorism, on the other.
Power Politics and Moral Accountability
One after another, they spun a series of dubious and contradictory geopolitical projects—The Global War on Terror, democratizing the Greater Middle East, the pivot to East Asia, joining maritime zones to form an imaginary Indo-Pacific theater, and, through it all, the steady expansion of NATO into post-Soviet territories.
Foreign Fighters Arrive in Scores to Fight in Ukraine
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned their citizens who travel to fight that they could be prosecuted under anti-terrorism legislation.
Iran’s Proxies in the Middle East: A Halted Transition to Politics?
Moreover, elements within the PMF such as Kata'ib Hezbollah and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq with strong ties to Iran, have been trying to hinder Turkey’s fight against PKK terror in northern Iraq as they present it as “a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty,” a point which was also made by Iraj Masjedi, Iran’s ambassador in Baghdad last year in February.
Stability, Resilience and Chaos in the New World Order
Meanwhile 9/11 and the Arab Spring introduced many new concepts, mainly emanating from state practices such as the “War on Terror”, pre-emptive strikes, demography conflicts, asymmetric warfare, and hybrid or proxy wars.
Xinjiang: The New Face of the Old Problem in China
For this purpose, it is important to position Chinese state violence at the crossroads of the post-socialist neoliberal development and the surge in Islamophobia since the West’s “war on terror” was launched.
Despite Peace in the Gulf, Qatar and the UAE Still Compete
After the Al-Ula declaration, one might mention the continuity of the indirect competition over the Hollywood movie The Misfits that portrays Qatar as “Jazeeristan,” a terrorist state and a global financier of terrorism.
What French Presidential Election Means for French Muslims and Turkey
In fact, the marginalization and securitization of Muslims in France since the September 11 terrorist attacks reveal that the French governments follow an institutionally Islamophobic stance.
Comparing Russian Military Interventions in Syria and Ukraine Is Misguided
Russia entered Syria under the banner of fighting global terrorism, giving Moscow a greater degree of perceived legitimacy in its bombing campaigns that helped Assad’s regime regain much territory.
Rayan, the Moroccan 5-Year-Old, and the Unspoken Miseries of a Media Show
Yet, despite considerable efforts, thus far, Morocco has not yet managed to host the coveted cup; Morocco is busy with selling a positive image of its status as a moderate, pro-Western Muslim country, and one that spearheads the fight against “Islamist terrorism.
China vs Russia in Central Asia?
To be precise, unrest in China’s western province Xinjiang and its bordering with the Islamic republics of Central Asia, which are rich in oil and gas; the vacuum created in the region with the retreat of Moscow; and the military withdrawal of Washington from Afghanistan prompted the Chinese to come up with a developmental strategy through which they can address the country’s core concerns of threat of terrorism, instability in the wider region, and effective exploitation of the regional hydrocarbon resources.
Still Waters Run Deep: Germany’s Far-Right Extremism Problem
n February 19, 2020, the right-wing extremist terrorist Tobias R.
