Early in July 2023, Israel launched a massive military onslaught on the refugee camps in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank in Palestine. The attack was the biggest in 20 years, in which Israel used its military arsenal to the full against unarmed civilians. It left immense devastation of lives …
Read More »Dismissal Of China’s Foreign Minister Reflects Internal Turmoil – Analysis
The top decision-making body of China’s rubber-stamp parliament voted Tuesday to oust foreign minister Qin Gang and reappoint his predecessor Wang Yi to the role. Analysts say the surprising personnel reshuffle weeks after Qin disappeared from public view reflects turmoil in China’s diplomatic system and expect it will have a …
Read More »Turkish intelligence eliminates terrorist behind 2021 forest fires
Turkish intelligence eliminated Özgür Şoreş, the Türkiye officer of terrorist group PKK/KCK-YPS, codenamed Özgür Alparslan, with an operation in northern Iraq, security sources said Saturday. Şoreş, responsible for the terrorist group’s activities in Türkiye since 2019, was also the founder of Children of Fire initiative responsible for numerous forest fires …
Read More »Saudi-Iran Détente: Implications For Chinese Energy Security – OpEd
The Saudi-Iran Détente surprised the western intelligentsia, as they never expected the reconciliation between the dichotomous Arab-Persian regional powers. Recently, both countries announced that they would mend their diplomatic ties under the auspices of the People’s Republic of China. Although it will definitely impact the geopolitics of the Middle Eastern …
Read More »Don’t Let Ukraine Join NATO
The Costs of Expanding the Alliance Outweigh the Benefits As the war in Ukraine grinds on, policymakers and pundits, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder, are pushing for NATO to offer Ukraine what French President Emmanuel Macron calls “a path toward membership” …
Read More »Don’t Let Ukraine Join NATO
The Costs of Expanding the Alliance Outweigh the Benefits As the war in Ukraine grinds on, policymakers and pundits, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder, are pushing for NATO to offer Ukraine what French President Emmanuel Macron calls “a path toward membership” …
Read More »What Is NATO?
The alliance is bolstering its military deterrent in Europe amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has expanded to include Finland. Introduction Founded in 1949 as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) remains the pillar of U.S.-Europe military cooperation. An expanding bloc of NATO allies has …
Read More »The Middle East: A New Arena For US-China Cold War – OpEd
The cold war has never ended after the bifurcation of the former USSR rather it has taken a new shape by entering new players into the arena. The world has now converted from unipolar to multipolar world with the rising China. Along with other areas of the world the Middle …
Read More »Russian Money Flowing Illicitly Through Western Balkans
New report from Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime says the Western Balkans has become a key gateway for Russian cash to flow illicitly across borders thanks to the weak rule of law and high presence of orgnised crime there. A new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized …
Read More »“Unfortunately for Kurti, the truth is a little different”: Danas interlocutors on the Kosovo Prime Minister’s statement that Serbs in Kosovo live better than Serbs in Serbia
Does Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti have official data that proves his statement? Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija live in a mixture of segregation and intimidation, total insecurity for their children, their property and themselves. It is about another lie and manipulation by Kurti, aimed primarily at the public in the …
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