Military Coups of West Africa
Weak statehood often gives way to anarchy which in the aftermath of a power vacuum allows non-state actors to replace the legitimate form of government. But non-state actors do not always depose the elected...
Tagged: Al Qaeda
False Promises of UN in Countering International Terrorism
The United Nations Organization (UNO) failed to define “what is terrorism”. The undemocratic structure of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and its VETO power is serving the interests of only P-5 countries Expansion of...
Democratic Taiwan shouldn’t be another Crimea & Afghanistan
In 2014, the Crimean peninsula located along the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, which was part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine since the disintegration of the giant communist-ruled Soviet...
Is the West responsible for the evacuation chaos in Afghanistan?
The resignation of the Dutch Foreign Minister, Ms Sigrid Kaag, over the evacuation chaos in Afghanistan in September 2021 resurfaced the debate around the role of the western powerhouses in the failure of organised...
Political crisis after the missing security agent in Somalia
Ikran Tahlil, a 24-year-old cybersecurity expert who worked in the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) of Somalia was found missing on the evening of June 26, 2021, at around 8:03 pm. She disappeared...
Islamic State in Afghanistan could be able to attack U.S. in 6 months-Pentagon official
The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Islamic State in Afghanistan could have the capability to attack the United States in as little as six months, and has the intention to do so, a...
AfPak Takes On New Meaning with the Rise of the Taliban
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The attacks on Kabul’s international airport by ISIS’s Afghan affiliate raise questions suggesting a possible paradigm shift in the drivers and expanding geography of political violence. The attacks by ISIS’s Afghan affiliate...
Why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan does not signal the end of The War on Terror
On September 16th 2001, just 5 days after the horrific attack on the United States by terrorists belonging to Al Qaeda, President George W Bush announced the beginning of the war on terror. A...
A costly Afghan mistake
The Taliban’s quick seizure of Afghanistan is an exact replay of what happened there 25 years ago. Then, radical Islamists have managed to gain control over the entire territory of the country, except for...
How Current Events in Afghanistan provide India an opportunity to focus on its maritime power
With the new upturns in Afghanistan, the paradoxes in India’s strategic culture are being exposed. In this discourse, our civilisational history has become so overbearing that India has been consistently ignoring its geography- forgetting...
