Ayça Alemdaroğlu is a political sociologist at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
On 22 September 2026, the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) – a banned Baloch ethno-nationalist separatist group in Pakistan, waging an insurgency in Balochistan, allegedly from bases in Afghanistan – claimed that its
The formal end of the US military support mission in Iraq on September 30 will mark a major change in the relationship between Washington and Baghdad, shifting the emphasis from a US-led security presence towards wider regional and geopolitical cooperation.
Kamjong District has emerged as one of the principal theatres of the expanding Naga-Kuki confrontation in Manipur in 2026. Located along the India-Myanmar border
by Luxman Anthony Scaramucci’s most revealing confession may also be the sentence that prevents All the Wrong Moves from becoming a conventional anti-Trump polemic:
Author’s Note: I write this piece in solidarity with all those imprisoned for their ideas and political engagement in Turkey and around the world. Among them is my friend and colleague Mehmet
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