Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP) remains a relatively small but persistent militant threat in Pakistan, using sectarian violence, targeted assassinations and occasional suicide attacks to exploit deep communal and political fault lines,
The international security environment entering 2026 is marked by an intensity, breadth, and complexity of conflict risks unseen since the end of the Second World War. According to the Center for Preventive
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In jubilation, when news reached him from Lima that arch-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast had emerged victorious in Chile’s presidential election, Argentina’s right wing president Javier Milei posted a map of South
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The United States military carried out a large-scale assault on Islamic State positions across Syria on Friday, striking more than 70 targets in what officials described as a direct response to a
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Editor’s note: The following essay is based on a speech delivered recently by Olli Rehn, Governor of the Bank of Finland, at the Bank of Finland’s biannual lunch for EU Heads of
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India’s control over the hydropower resources in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) represents a key component of its broader strategy to economically dominate and politically subjugate the region. With
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Ninety years ago, on 18 December 1935, a handful of young people came together to establish the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Leslie Goonewardena, General Secretary of
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Bangladesh’s political future has become increasingly uncertain since the outbreak of protests in June 2024 against reservation policies favoring descendants of freedom fighters. What began as a student-led agitation has since evolved
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Police and paramilitary forces were deployed across Dhaka and several other cities on Friday following violent overnight protests triggered by the death of a prominent youth leader, raising concerns of further unrest
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Businessman Murtaza Lakhani has strongly denied allegations underpinning recent sanctions imposed on him by the European Union and the United Kingdom, describing the measures as “unfounded, unfair and politically motivated.” In a
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The disappointment felt by many left-wing supporters in Latin America has been renewed with the recent democratic victory of the far right in Chile. This sentiment is particularly poignant as it reflects
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Across the world today, youth energy is being squandered — not for lack of ideals, but for lack of direction. Instead of confronting entrenched injustice, too many young voices are being recruited
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I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the newly appointed Nobel Peace Prize winner, said at a press
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If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged by geopolitical puppeteers—would you really be surprised? After all, the last two decades have
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In mid-November 2025, at a United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) conference in Saudi Arabia, Basher Abdullah, an adviser to Sudan’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, said, ‘First, we need to end the
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The terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025, was a harrowing act of violence that claimed 15 lives, including a child, and injured 42 others during a Hanukkah
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