Eurasia

In the last three years, Indonesia and the southern Philippines have seen something new: women carrying out suicide bombings – some with their husbands, some with their children, and some avenging slain husbands – targeting churchgoers, police officers, and soldiers.1 In Malaysia, during the May 2018 general election, a 51-year-old …

Soll man gegen radikale religiöse Strömungen auftreten? Ja, unbedingt. Doch mit schwammigen und pauschalen Vorwürfen wird man dabei scheitern. Die Operation Luxor, ein Lieblingsprojekt von Innenminister Karl Nehammer, entwickelt sich für ihn gerade zum politischen Bumerang. Das Oberlandesgericht Graz hat Beschwerden von neun Beschuldigten zu den Hausdurchsuchungen stattgegeben. Sie waren …

Ne perversmo, ne: įstatymo numatyta tvarka, Seimo pavedimu, paskirti kariškių Vyriausybę, išleidus dabartinį kabinetą apmokamų atostogų (jei nori savanoriauti, žinoma, gali padėti, nebent jie būtų iš Laisvės partijos – tuos į Nidą bent dešimčiai dienų ir kiekvienam po kebabą). Nes Lietuvoje yra karo metas. Pats tikriausias karo metas. Apibrėžtam laikui …

Situācija uz Baltkrievijas un Lietuvas robežas jau kopš aprīļa ir būtiski pasliktinājusies, bet pēdējās nedēļās kļuvusi absolūti nenormāla. Ik dienas vairāk nekā simts nelegālo robežpārkāpēju šķērso abu valstu robežu ar acīmredzamu Baltkrievijas varas struktūru svētību. Tiešo lidmašīnu reisu skaits maršrutā Bagdāde–Minska palielinājies no diviem reisiem nedēļā uz četriem. Ir pamatotas …

Medio Oriente. Un anno dopo gli speculatori gentrificano, la politica si auto-assolve e gli Stati esteri utilizzano gli aiuti per controllare il Libano. Chi può se ne va all’estero, la più grande diaspora dai tempi della guerra civile. Processo in stallo, i familiari delle vittime protestano ogni mese davanti al …

The British navy says of Tuesday’s hijacking of a ship off in the Gulf of Oman, following a loss of steering control reported by at least six ships in the area, that the “incident [is] complete.” Clearly, it isn’t. The armed hijackers who boarded the Panama-flagged asphalt tanker Asphalt Princess …

Biden officials’ claims that the US doesn’t ‘seek conflict’ is belied by pushes to continually one-up Beijing’s defenses. One purpose of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s meetings in China on Monday was to place “guardrails” on the deteriorating relationship. She told her counterparts that the United States welcomes “stiff …

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin inadvertently introduced a conversation about where the EU should focus its security priorities. Some of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s remarks in Singapore on Tuesday are a severe embarrassment to the British government. Whether Austin realized this or not, he undermined one part of Biden administration …

Former Air Force analyst Daniel Hale is going to jail for revealing the extent to which US drones kill civilians. The District Court of Alexandria, Virginia on Tuesday sentenced former Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale to nearly four years in prison. He was charged under the Espionage Act for …

Lawrence in Arabia – War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Scott Anderson. Anchor Books, Random House LLC, New York, 2013. Every very seldom often a book comes along that greatly exceeds expectations. Lawrence in Arabia is one of those books. Scott Anderson’s writing is …