The relationship between governments and criminal organisations is also more complicated than a simple exchange of money for violence. Financial incentives are an important motivation, particularly because contract killings and covert operations
September 1 marks the anniversary of the death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929–2021), a prominent figure in the Kashmiri movement advocating for legitimate self-determination. Geelani began his political journey with Jamaat-e-Islami
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As reported on September 2, 2026, the Afghanistan United Front (AUF) killed a Taliban official, Qari Aghagol, from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the 18th
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For forty years, the countries of the Global South were told that economic planning was an error. The state was to retreat, tariffs were to fall, public firms were to be privatised,
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U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Laura DiBella and FMC Commissioner Robert J. Harvey will visit Sri Lanka from September 6–10, in a move aimed at advancing U.S.-Sri Lanka cooperation on maritime
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The month of August lived up to the caption of “the living, dead and disappeared.” The month saw the end of the 10-day Kandy Esala Perahera festival in all its glory. The
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More than six decades after Fidel Castro declared education one of the central pillars of the Cuban Revolution, the country’s schools have opened for a new academic year under conditions the Government
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The battle over Torreciudad, the spiritual heart of Opus Dei in Spain, has moved from a local dispute into a revealing test of power inside the Catholic Church. Newly disclosed handwritten letters
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The disaster that struck the Nepal-China border on August 26 has forced scientists to reconsider how high-mountain hazards are assessed. What began with the collapse of a glacier-rock system near Langtang Lirung
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For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin has pursued political objectives through military escalation. The question now confronting Europe is not simply whether the Russian president intends to continue the war in
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While the Iran War dominates international headlines, Russia continues to conduct increasingly brazen external operations on European soil. The pattern is becoming harder to dismiss as a series of isolated incidents: assassination
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The fragile ceasefire and current status quo of the war between the United States and Iran were tested over the weekend as the U.S. military launched its first strikes in over a
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Ever since India decided to keep the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance, Pakistan has launched a full-scale, propaganda-driven lawfare campaign across various platforms, desperately trying to internationalise a bilateral issue. The recent
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Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful
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A decade ago, Kurdish movements across the Middle East appeared to be gaining ground. In Syria, Kurdish militias advanced against the self-proclaimed Islamic State caliphate, their resistance against the jihadists responsible for
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Deep beneath dense undergrowth, beneath a bridge near Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt, investigators found a hole in the damp earth. The location, close to the Saale and only a few kilometres from Leipzig/Halle
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