Following is the June installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly update on the ongoing attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. The May update can be read here, the April update here, and a full background and analysis of ISIS’s resurgence can be read …
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Fear Makes Kosovo’s Wartime Rape Survivors Guard Their Secrets
Kosovo offers welfare payments to survivors of sexual violence during the 1998-99 war – but some women are afraid to register in case their relatives or neighbours find out and they are ostracised because of the enduring stigma.
Read More »Trump Administration’s Bet on Kosovo’s Thaci Fails to Pay Off
The White House’s envoy for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue hoped to rush both countries’ leaders into a deal and score a win for Donald Trump – but the announcement of Hashim Thaci’s war crimes indictment exposed the problem with Washington’s strategy.
Read More »Kosovo Ex-Guerrillas Vow Protests Against President Thaci’s Indictment
Former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters say they will demonstrate against the pending war crimes indictment of President Hashim Thaci and other former guerrilla chiefs, calling the charges an insult to their struggle for independence.
Read More »Two Decades on, Kosovo’s Guerrilla Boss Thaci May Finally Face Trial
The indictment filed by the Specialist Prosecutor charging Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was a long-awaited move that follows two decades of investigations into alleged wartime wrongdoings.
Read More »The US and EU Have Both Failed Kosovo
The only ones benefitting from the failures of Brussels and Washington in Kosovo are the autocrat Vucic and his friends in Moscow and Beijing.
Read More »Power Play: Race for Czech Nuclear Plant Stirs Geopolitical Stew
Chinese, Russian, US and other firms are all in a race to bid to construct the first new nuclear plant in the Czech Republic in years that will have major political implications.
Read More »Russia Acts with Impunity as the United States Struggles to Respond
Few national security analysts were surprised by recent allegations of Russian bounty payments to Taliban insurgents who killed Americans, even as many were disturbed by President Trump’s failure to take any action against Moscow after being briefed about the plot.
Read More »Ex-Cambridge student Oliver Bel denies terror offence
A former Cambridge University student has denied possessing a bomb-making instruction manual.
Read More »Release of Pro-Iran Militants Signals Governance Challenge in Iraq, Experts Say
Defying state power, a group of 14 pro-Iran militiamen clothed in khaki military fatigues trampled over doctored portraits of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
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