South Korea’s alliance with the United States is facing one of its most difficult periods in years, with disputes over intelligence sharing, investment commitments and military cooperation increasingly affecting the security relationship
Massive “No Kings” protests across the USA a few days back, opposing Trump’s policies and style of functioning, have not come as a surprise to discerning observers around the world. The scale
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On October 27, 1947, Kashmiris worldwide observe Black Day as the beginning of India’s unlawful occupation of the region. The occupation, which included human rights violations, was imposed under oppressive laws. On
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The Central Bank bond scandal of 2015 remains Sri Lanka’s most notorious financial fraud, and its transnational ramifications continue to test the limits of international law. Despite Sri Lanka’s decade, long pursuit
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The CIA reportedly sought to enlist British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill to deliver broadcasts on Radio Liberty during the 1950s, aiming to destabilize the Soviet Union, according to a report by
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U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Malaysia early Sunday, launching his first Asian tour of his second term with a packed agenda centered on trade, energy, and security — and capped by
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In an essay published in The Times UK, historian and political commentator Niall Ferguson warns that the latest escalation in the struggle between the United States and China is not being fought
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The US President Donald Trump has seemingly shifted gear in the US strategy to stop Russia on its tracks from creating new facts on the ground in Ukraine. Russian forces have the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo More than a dozen notorious Sri Lankan criminals are reportedly living under the protection of European countries, raising questions about the continent’s commitment to justice and human
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Infantry, the ‘Queen of the Battle,’ is the sword arm of the Indian armed forces with a primary role of closing in with the enemy and destroying him or seizing ground. Despite
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In a recent episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, retired Special Agent Raj Patel revisits one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in recent history: the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings.
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has reportedly halted a high-level defence delegation’s planned visits to Israel, Iran, and Egypt, citing concerns over the complex geopolitical implications such trips
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On October 20, National Mobilization Front (NMF) fighters carried out a targeted operation in Kabul city in the vicinity of the First District. The target of this operation was a prominent ‘commander’
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The homecoming of Thuingaleng Muivah, the supremo of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM), to his native village, Somdal in Manipur’s Ukhrul District, on October 22, 2025, after five decades,
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The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked with faded graffiti from the estallido social (social uprising) of 2019. Years later, these slogans continue to spill onto the
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Russia secretly acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic, using front companies to procure sensitive equipment from U.S. and European suppliers, according to an investigation by The
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