On November 3, President Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency.” The “emergency” is due to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the
On 6 July 2026, as millions of black-clad mourners pour into the streets of Tehran to bid farewell to the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, they will not be looking
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When the rains finally stopped, what remained was not just devastation but disbelief. Entire neighbourhoods had turned into brown, swirling lakes. Heartbreaking images and videos flow of families stood on the upper
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Gold is on fire. Not literally, of course, but judging by its price chart, you’d think it had been doused in gasoline and set ablaze. The price of gold has skyrocketed in
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Syria has fallen, but not into the arms of liberation – it has tumbled headlong into the clenched fists of extremism. The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the jihadist
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The 2024 Paris Olympics, scheduled from 26 July to 11 August, promise to be a global carnival of athleticism and culture. Yet, this grand festival also casts long shadows as it draws
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The tentacles of terrorism have stroked the hearts of peace-loving people since time immemorial. The South Asian region alone has witnessed brutal chapters of terror and insurgency by multiple threat actors and
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As blood-red lighting stained the backdrop, the dark black sky rendered an eerie aura of despotism. Members of the military stood guard clutching their weapons in a show of power. Like a
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As the hands of the great chronograph of time strike to symbolise twenty-one years since that day of sheer terror in downtown New York, the world reflects upon the new type of
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Another influential figure passes from the genus of the living and into the memories of the lost. As the month of August completed its timely lapse, the final leader of the Soviet
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As two raging hellfire missiles fired from a US military drone slammed into the balcony of a compound in Kabul, the world grew less dark – another terrorist was slain. The death
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Time turns a page to mark a year since the re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan through the colossal failure of the Biden administration’s botched military withdrawal. The threat that the Taliban
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