Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is the umbrella organisation for al-Qaeda groups in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In support of al-Qaeda's doctrine, AQAP has conducted deadly jihadist assaults both locally and overseas. it is best known ...
In 2019, a Hollywood action-thriller movie Angel Has Fallen depicted a futuristic scene in which the US President faces a swarm of drones in the middle of a river. To protect the President against the attack, a secret service agent Mike Ban...
The term 'radicalisation' is one of the most important concepts in understanding the nature of violence and conflicts around the world. The case of Sri Lanka is instructive in gaining a better knowledge of the various aspects of Islamic rad...
Afghanistan has become a classic case of what all could grow wrong in a nation that becomes the playground for great power politics. Ever since the invasion of one great power and the other, from USSR to the USA, Afghanistan has not known w...
Apart from the Indo-Pacific Quad, a new Quad was formed last month when India's, Israel's, the United Arab Emirates', and the United States' foreign ministers met to form a "International Forum for Economic Cooperation." Following last year...
Terrorism in Syria has a protracted record courting from the Islamist Uprising withinside the early Eighties and to the continued Syrian Civil War which witnessed the rise of radical Islamist organizations including ISIL, al-Nusra and diffe...
In the wake of Iraq’s fifth parliamentary elections which are scheduled for the coming week on October 10th, the political dynamics of the country have come a long way since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Since the toppling of Saddam Hussein an...
Youth recruitment by terrorist groups is a global challenge. The internet is providing terrorists and extremists with the same chance and capability that it is offering for the rest of the world. to communicate, collaborate and convince. Th...
Since the 1990s, law enforcers have focused on identifying and deterring criminal activities revolving around the proceeds of crime. This has been done through the establishment of regulations and procedures designed to prevent the flow of ...
On 31st of July 2018 the media wing of ISIS, Amaq, issued a video. The video featured the killers of four foreign cyclists (two from the United States, one Dutch, and one a Swiss citizen killed in Southern Tajikistan) taking the responsibil...
Central Asia has always remained a great strategic battlefield among various regional and international powers. From antiquity to the contemporary period the Central Asian Region has always found itself at the core of the international affa...
Eastern Europe was part of the communist bloc during the cold war era under the influence of the Soviet Union. Following, the fall of the alliance in 1991 most of the countries gained independence meaning that they are UN recognised full-fl...
