On 8 April, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Around this same time in Ankara, the opposition candidate for mayor of the capital city was sworn in...
The upcoming Indian elections are the largest elections in the world, in terms of overall voters. They are also far and away the largest showcase of the voter-influencing power of disinformation campaigns and ‘fake news’ spread through social media and messaging apps...
On April 8, 2019, the Trump Administration announced its intent to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), a designation that will take effect by April 15 unless Congress acts to block the move...
Vladimir Putin has put to rest any questions about whether his primary objective is to return Russia to the great power status it once enjoyed...
The peaceful protests in Algeria accomplished their primary objective on April 02, when ‘president-for-life’ Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his immediate resignation from office...
The Atomwaffen Division (AWD) is a Neo-Nazi group founded by Brandon Clint Russell. AWD is strongly influenced by the ideas of notorious white supremacist James Mason, but also pays homage to a ‘who’s who’ of terrorists...
Gone are the days when only nation-states possessed the technical acumen to penetrate secure data and communication networks and the devices connected to them...
In late March, approximately 130 ethnic Peulh civilians were killed in the village of Ohassagou, in the Mopti region of central Mali. The Malian government blamed the Dogon self-defense group, Dan Na Ambassagou...
Earlier this month, with elections looming, the Algerian government shut down much of the country’s internet as part of an attempt to stem nationwide protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...
On March 18, 2019, China released a white paper titled ‘The Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism and Human Rights Protection in Xinjiang.’...
The United States’ campaign for allies and others to refrain from using Huawei products, services, and infrastructure is an ongoing legal issue as well as a contest over which company will provide the lion’s share of global infrastructure for the emerging 5G age of wireless...
On March 19, 2019, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced he would be stepping down after nearly three decades in power. Nazarbayev’s resignation was announced during a public television address and widely received with surprise...
Outside of arms sales, Russia’s most powerful economic and geopolitical tool is its ability to export natural gas—leverage that Moscow uses to its advantage...
The U.S. has long grappled with the desire to exert hard and soft power in the world while eschewing the realities of what it takes to sustain that power...
In the wake of the New Zealand mosque attacks, links have emerged between the shooter, Brenton Tarrant, and a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist, white supremacist paramilitary organization called the Azov Battalion...