According to Admiral (ret.) Türker Ertürk, a fierce critic of the current Turkish government, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party is succeeding in its methodical efforts to politicize the country’s…
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7, 2021, coming at the worst possible time for Haiti and its political stability. Moïse had been ruling by presidential decree since…
Expectations that the Somali National Army (SNA) is a unified fighting force were shattered 25 April when it split in two and several hundred soldiers from both sides exchanged gunfire.…
Kazakhstan’s defense industry is not a giant in the global arms market. However, it sets Central Asia’s largest state apart from others in the region and its history has been…
Throughout July temperatures across parts of Iraq have consistently hovered near 122 Fahrenheit and coincided with nation-wide electricity cuts. As happened last summer, southern Iraq was especially hard hit, and…
Since 2019, the heads of state of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan have met several times to discuss a new economic cooperation framework that is being dubbed the “New Levant” Alliance.…
Of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, its North East Zone is the one most often in the news as Boko Haram, which is situated there, periodically launches attacks that garner large…
On 28 June, Quebec’s French-language lapresse.ca, which covers national and international affairs from multiple ideological perspectives, reported in the excerpted article on bombings in Beni, Congo. The article noted on…
The accompanying article, written by a top Turkish analyst for al-Monitor, a globally read security news site with regionally based reporting, provides insight into militants of the Islamic State of…
For the first time Iran sailed naval vessels around the Horn of Africa and into the Atlantic Ocean. According to El Salvador based El Diario de Hoy, Venezuela is the…