Hardened borders have enjoyed somewhat of a resurgence over the last several years, as a general trend of anti-globalization and anti-globalism sweep through the West, ushering in a tide of fervent nationalism...
The U.S. is once again drifting away from long-time allies, this time by choosing not side with the European Union in demanding a full and transparent explanation by the Saudi government for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October...
The ‘global war on terror,’ or ‘GWOT,’ and the military-centric strategy underpinning it, endures even as the term itself is no longer common parlance from the Beltway to Baghdad. Since September 11, 2001, one of the strategic priorities of U.S. domestic and foreign policy has...
As the scope of Russia’s use of social media platforms to sow disinformation and spread malign influence became apparent after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Facebook belatedly investigated itself and, rather unsurprisingly, discovered serious shortcomings...
Just last weekend, world leaders gathered in Paris to mark the solemn one hundred-year anniversary of the end of WWI...
Formed in 2002, Mohammad Yusuf established Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno state. Initially, the group focused on improving economic and social conditions in the north of the country...
The ongoing suffering in Yemen is spiking again as fighters for the Saudi-UAE coalition battle Houthi rebels in the strategic port city of Hodeida...
On November 07, there was another mass shooting in the United States. A man identified as Ian David Long, a former Marine, murdered 11 people inside a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. This is the fourth such shooting in which ten or more people were...
Even though the fight against the so-called Islamic State continues in isolated corners of Iraq and Syria, the group now holds less than 1 percent of the land it had at its peak a few years ago...
The sheer scale of the murder attributed to the so-called Islamic State during its reign over large parts of Iraq (and Syria) from 2014 to 2017 is still becoming clear, though the full extent will likely never be known...
The so-called Islamic State, as well as al-Qaeda, thrive off of a persecution narrative in which they are the sole protectors of true believers in a world completely against them...
On Monday, November 5, the remaining U.S. secondary sanctions on Iran went back into effect after nearly two years of suspension under the landmark Iran nuclear deal, from which the Trump administration withdrew in May...
Since 2015, the U.S. has been providing significant support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in their war in Yemen. ...
The long-running U.S. double standard with concerns over crime and terrorism that are inspired by the narrative of bin Ladenism versus crime and terrorism inspired by right-wing ideology, appears to have continued last week with several attacks by alleged far-right extremists...
On October 22, Cameroon’s election results announced that octogenarian President Paul Biya had won his seventh term in presidential elections, extending his presidency for another seven years...