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...
The war in Syria has seen a resurgent Russia attempt to impose itself once again as an influential player in the Middle East...
President Donald Trump is seeking to minimize damage to U.S.-Saudi relations resulting from the planned October 2 killing in Istanbul of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based Saudi journalist and critic of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud...
A week that began with a right-wing extremist sending pipe bombs to leading Democratic Party figures and critics of President Trump, ended with the anti-Semitic murder of eleven people inside a synagogue located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
The inevitable end of violent political rhetoric is political violence, or, known by another term, terrorism...
In 1987, President Reagan and Soviet Premier Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty...