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Rashane Jude Pintoe

K. Rashane Jude Pintoe is a Fellow at the Global Peace Institute UK. An irregular warfare analyst, he specialises in the Islamic State Khurasan Province and writes on geopolitics, modern warfare, counterterrorism and global security. He holds an MSc in Security, Peacebuilding and Diplomacy in the UK.

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    Solidarity in the Storm

    Columns/Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka was struck by severe flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah, leading to road blockages, destruction of homes and loss of life.

    Clean Water, Shared Destiny: China–Sri Lanka Friendship in Action

    Diplomacy

    China and Sri Lanka first became connected through Buddhism and later through the Maritime Silk Road. The friendship between the two peoples has transcended

    Funeral as a Battlefield: How ISKP Is Poised to Exploit Iran’s Moment of Weakness

    July 5, 2026
    Columns/Geopolitics

    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 Arrived, the State Was Already Underwater: Some Lessons of Cyclone Ditwah

    December 1, 2025
    Editor's Choice/Sri Lanka

    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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    The Great Gold Grab: Panic Under Tariffs

    April 6, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    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’s Shifting Sands: The Global Repercussions of al-Julani’s Rise to Power

    December 23, 2024
    Columns/Geopolitics

    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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    Defending the Flame: The Threat Landscape Surrounding the 2024 Paris Olympics

    July 24, 2024
    Columns

    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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    Wake up Call: ISKP likely to attack Indian and Jewish Targets

    July 1, 2024
    Columns

    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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    Dictator Biden’s Double Standard

    September 18, 2022
    United States

    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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    War on Terror: 9/11 in Retrospect

    September 17, 2022
    United States

    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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    The Legacy of Gorbachev: International Peacemaker or National Resentment?

    September 5, 2022
    Diplomacy/Russia

    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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    Hunting Down al-Zawahiri – A Step towards Peace or a Move towards War?

    August 29, 2022
    Defence

    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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